They were too busy rushing checklists
What do you have to support your comment? You're comments on the ATC issue are also ambiguous. ATC's mission is to optimize traffic fluidity and to contribute to flight safety. The first cannot be at the expense of the second.
My guess is that neither the ATC nor the crew could guess if the aircraft would intercept loc & glide before or after 6 NM until it actually intercept the loc. This is certainly not the kind of vectoring that contribute to traffic fluidity and flight safety.
Was this flight the only aircraft to accept such tight vectoring? Was it the only one to intercept after the published FAP? What percentage of crew would have performed a go around at 5.5 NM?