Wow, so pilots are only checklist readers. Must be pretty scary for some of you to be on an aircraft with two guys like that who are in charge of your safety.
The purpose of removing analysis from such a delicate instant like V1 go/no go is so that precious seconds are not wasted wondering what's best choice.
These procedures are not coming from our "cheif pilot", they come from decades of commercial aviation accident research.
I suppose going around when we reach minimums on an ILS without the runway environment in sight is just another expression of our mindless procedures.
rcl