maybe pilots in general are not as good as they once were. that they have become so dependent upon automation that the idea of landing within 200 feet of your touchdown spot has gone out the window.
protectthehornet, I take you point but 99% of landings are manual - I don't see how becoming dependent upon automation necessarily means that one cannot touchdown at the correct point on the runway.
If you practice
every landing as though the runway is limiting, then there should be little problem in landing when it is. But you have to establish in your mind that if the wheels are not on the ground by a certain point then you're going to execute a go around.
Perhaps we should also bear in mind that landing distance is a function of the square of the speed (double the touchdown speed and you quadruple the landing distance - in terms of kinetic energy - 0.5mv(squared)). This means that a few extra knots is going to make a big difference to the landing distance.