You're a bus driver (quite literally!) and thinking outside the box and/or applying common sense seem to be a qualities most people in the UK don't posses
The issue is not whether you can apply common sence. The issue is whether you can successfully manage your aircraft condition to fulfill the directives stated in the OM. It paints a disturbing picture when guys only see problems in Company directives they clearly cannot deliver.
The stabilised approach criteria are not designed to keep the approach safe. They are designed to preserve the safety margin between an unsafe approach and the Company standard for a stabilised approach. That safety margin is a carefully crafted condition that the leaders of this Company want us to deliver. These criteria are written to describe the conditions of a safe entry to stabilised approach and landing. If a crew cannot achieve the entry to stabilised conditions by 1,000 feet, the PNF is required to direct a go-around at 500ft and the PF is directed to initiate a go-around
We do not have separate manuals for gifted aviators and average aviators. Everyone on this team uses the same rulebook.
You may not agree with the guiding concepts of the procedures, but our boss has. As the old adage goes, what interests my boss fascinates me.