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!
Can't say I disagree with any of this.
At JED, especially at Haj time, this is done all the time with good effect.
Pilots, whether flying old steam gauges (yours truly) or....brand new equipment, have to be, on occasion, rather flexible at times.
If not...they hold up the show for everyone, and make no mistake...it is not appreciated by many.
Departures...or arrivals.