............."Possibly another good reason for feathering before shutting down. Quick and easy to recover if wrong one"....................
Better still, I reckon once we had to do the shutdown and all drills, as a crew effort... F.O. confirming the action, the mistakes decreased.
For the first couple of years I flew 'em, the captain had feathered the thing before I'd realized what he was up to.
A couple of times I was looking out the side reporting the oil spillage or checking for smoke while the old boy was quite happily, rapidly closing the throttle, feathering, cutting off the mixture.
I'd be swinging my head back around at the same time as he was pushing in a boot full of rudder.