One can only assume that "anotherthing" is an area controller and has never worked in a stripless environment. Those of us who work terminal radar do not have the luxury of a planner working out conflictions two hours in advance. Some of us are also too polite to say that another controller's opinion is "complete and utter rubbish".
Since politeness has been thrown out of the window, I might add than when a pilot fails to follow instructions, it is complete and utter rubbish to say that scanning your strips is more important than looking at the damn radar screen. Level busts, navigational errors and failure to follow heading instructions cannot be caught by strips.
Now, going to back to where I already pointed out that I cannot speak from area control experience, might one or two area admit they know nothing of approach control?