A minute is a minute! Gimme radar vectors and an altitude and I'm more than happy to blast off NOW! It's how I used to do it for the first 20+ years of my career and I'm not afraid of doing it anytime, and hang the programmed SID! I can do happily without it when I've got a schedule to keep and everybody is trying to mess it up! Who are these pilots frightened to take it out of LNAV? As for 'not following the briefing!', stuff it! A pilot who can't go raw data at a moment's notice is being lazy! Save me a minute and I'm eternally grateful!