Aerodynamic is a science, nothing to do with my personal credibility or your "experienced" aviator friends.
Increasing AOA on an engineless aircraft below Vref is severly reducing the gliding distance, that's a fact which can be confirmed by any non-qualified, non-rated, non-professional, non-credible glider pilot or C152 instructor.
Now if you like to think that in the heavy metal world rules are different and that aircrafts actually glides further at max AOA it's up to you. No need to bring the suburban jungle in the topic, ILS procedures are fortunately designed with OCH and you won't smash a building each time you slightly deviate from GS.