Lowest Common Denominators
Despite our frustrations, bottom line is we have chosen to fly for Cathay as, for now, it suits our life and/or income needs. Is it really so onerous for the more experienced amongst us to have to play the threat/strategy game,, to have to think in the descent, "Err, what's next, aah - getting lower/closer" - (just two examples of excess verbiage quoted in this thread).
"We" may have built up the airmanship to not need a mandatory framework of preparatory and ongoing actions. "We" could therefore give license for "just do it" briefs or adopt the "be there and cope" outlook we may miss from previous lives. But take a non standard day with a few ac glitches and your wife on board, take a young stud from an ego driven culture and another perhaps from Hong Kong where thinking outside of the box is actively discouraged in schools, who believes (and it's no fault of his own) in his bones that he should only do as taught/in the FCOM. Who in that crew will elect to consider the stuff that "We" would now have the experience to just know needed considering?
Drives me mental too guys but ya know....so what? One day a few years ago, even "We" might have been the Lowest Common Denominators