Given that I quite regularly (Not as regularly as I'd like,) comfortably land a 152 with 2 stages on the first 600m of EGPD runway 34 after a 3şish approach, I think there may be a good many more airfields out there where a standard-configuration approach will work very well than TW indicates. I am sure 600m of tarmac is still luxury to some :-)
Sure, you get a nicer view on the approach with full flaps but it makes a go-around harder work.
On the flipside, how many 152 pilots would use 1 stage of flap on takeoff from the end of a runway with 2Km+ of TORA in front of them?