Er! yeah and your point is? I have not seen anywhere in this discussion anyone even suggesting that flight without a medical is OK. Everyone has said the same thing, the reason as examiners we ask to look at the medical is just as a sanity to check to make sure it has not been forgotten. Very easily done I am afraid. I have come close in the past and there is nothing wrong with my 'situational awareness'!!!
'taking the pilot seriously' does to give the examiner the right to refuse revalidation when then the requirements have been legally met. A diligent examiner will make it clear to the pilot their responsibilities for securing a new medical before flight.
It may just be as in a recent case where I had a guy who needed he revalidation signing, his medical expired at the same time as the rating so he was going through the hoops and next stop was a medical.