Pure semantics. You have consistently proposed - have you not - that a pilot should confirm the position of the U/C, even if it is fixed. Surely (applying your own logic) the same pilot should also consider the props, fuel pumps, cowl flaps, oil cooler doors, leading edge slats, airbrakes, spoilers, drag chute, water rudder, yaw damper, autopilot, water injection, supercharger, afterburner, etc etc. After all, the next aircraft that pilot flies may well have fuel pumps, cowl flaps, oil cooler doors, leading edge slats, airbrakes, spoilers, drag chute, water rudder, water injection, supercharger or even an afterburner. Or, it might not.