scrubba,
You are correct. If your metric for a good landing is touchdown sink rate, a late agressive pull will only make it worse. This is particularly true for a T-tail configuration where the horizontal tail is not as impacted by ground effect lift as much and thus is not significantly "cushioned" as it approaches the runway. I have heard some pilots talk of a technique where a slight nose down command is made just as the mains are touching down in order to "lift" the tail and further soften the landing.
It seems that a soft landing is really a matter of hitting the sweet spot of not flaring too late such that sink rate has not been arrested and not flaring too early such that you float, lose speed, and eventually end up dropping in the last little bit.
Its a bit off topic, but a curious side effect of a very soft landing is that the auto speedbrakes may end up firing before the main gear strut oleos are fully compressed causing the airplane to settle abruptly with an undesirable bang when the oleos reach their fully compressed position. I'm curious how many pilots notice this and on what models they have found it. Is this enough of a factor to lead pilot to avoid auto speedbrakes electing for manual speedbrake extension following touchdown? This is quite possibly worth a separate thread.