TyroPicard:
You have to love PPruNers .. dogmatic answers from their own narrow viewpoint.
You got that one right. Why let those pesky certfication/operational considerations get in the way of pilot instinct?
In all my years flying a four-engine aircraft, this is the first time I've heard that we retract flaps on the OEI profile because we may lose another one. No doubt that is a possibility but far more remote than suffering adverse consequences from improperly flying the specified profile.