Aint that the truth - the planes get cleverer (and more of them) - the pilots get less cleverer - and the number of runways stays about the same - the number of ATC staff decreases - the noise complaints increases.
Despite the best intentions in the world there is
not a damn thing anyone can do to improve the situation to where we won't get vectoring/speed control/all of the above between TOPD and landing unless more runways exist with less noise constraints.
Anyone who gets overly stressed about this perhaps picked the wrong job.
