Well yes, you might descend at a high rate to intercept, but if the aircraft has achieved glide slope capture and is still going down at 1400 feet/min something is very wrong - plus the attitude is wrong and it looks wrong if visual.
Regarding ATC, if you are kept high, it isn't great work from them; but you can always ask for delaying vectors etc. to give you more time. The pilots are to blame if you push on regardless while hot and high.
The airline I am currently flying for is a big advocate of the discontinued approach. On a tangent, most airlines teach us in the sims go arounds from decision altitude, not from further out on the approach. Infact it is far easier at a higher altitude just to level off, start going up and reconfigure and have another go at an approach, than sticking in TOGA thrust.