Rainboe,
I agree that the original idea of cabin crew giving a good to go call would be a terrible idea, but the following inference from 411a
CC don't know sh!t from shinola
backed up to a lesser extent from yourself is symptomatic of unneccesary arrogance. You two may well have 50,000 hours between yourselves but with due respect there are plenty of high hour people who have written off aircraft especially with human factor issues.
However this is not relevant to this thread so I will not annoy you further.