Perhaps they're referring instead to being dazzled by the lights rather than having night vision ruined. Related but different things.
I suspect abc1 was being facetious with his or her comment about CRM. That said, a number of studies world wide regarding cockpit culture, threat identification and mitigation, error management, etc all point to a positive outcome for 'western' flight decks with lower accident rates than airlines from other areas.. From memory, the yanks, brits, canucks, Aussies, Germans and French all rate pretty highly.
Funny how we digress from Tiger crews requesting push when they're not ready to discussing worldwide CRM effectiveness.