Pug - Yeah, it make sense that max takeoff is the norm, regardless of engine hours...if you need it, you need it..and no one is going to tell you that the engine will fall apart if you need max power....the engine is either airworthy or not......and that reduced thrust departures are nice to use, given the conditions, runway, that allow lower fan/turbine speeds, temps to reduce engine wear...curious though that people do reduced thrust departures, then run max cruise power settings all day long...you would think to be consistent with reduced power departures, reduced cruise settings would be pushed as well....hard to believe all the engine wear is in 2 minutes of take off power vs 10 hours of flying basically fire walled at cruise...
But...I am just throwing out there...that by reducing take off thrust...putting your self farther down the runway on purpose...limits runway available to stop....pre or post v1...
So why not just give yourself more options...more runway is nice...if you have the choice, why not take the option that gives you the best chance of a successfull RTO vs feeling pushed to just fly it off, and hope for the best?
Personally I don't see a problem with an RTO..if we can land a plane at 120 kts, we can surely stop one already on the ground doing 110kts...the only question is available runway....