No boat rocked Slip and Turn and no sticks grabbed by the wrong end either.
I'm not trying to make the calculations complicated...just to explain that to assume that anything was being done without prudence would require you to know exactly what the circumstances were.
As for the estimates made for loads...just assumed weights for the men and women which err on the side of safety in the same way the Perf calcs have factors of safety built in with assumptions about aircraft performance.
As has been mentioned before safety is the priority and has been built into the system of performance calculations to negate the need for second guessing the validity of the data once it has been gross error checked.
As for choosing to be a 'don't wannabe' fair enough. I can't say that I've encountered any politics in the flight deck though. We leave that on the ground and in the hands of those that prefer their perch behind a desk rather than up front where we spend more of our effort in considering the expediency of intersection takeoffs!
Here's hoping Azerenka can stop it being an all William's final....