This is all true!
However, the best way of encouraging a discussion is by being deliberately provocative. If you read a random selecton of AAIB bulletin reports the vast majority are landing accidents of the 'bust the nosewheel off' variety. Surely this means that for all this supposed good circuit discipline described by Jude what is really needed is some proper instruction and lots of landings - not beetling around the pattern logging long-haul time.
I cannot help but think the one (poor circuits) probably leads on to the other (dodgy arrivals)