Depends what you mean by late.
If it is more commercial and efficient
and can be achieved without rushing, yes. It will have been briefed beforehand.
Obviously if the weather is cack and staying cack there's no point briefing for it.
Like you say,
it's a requirement to do a full brief for a visual so if this has not been planned/anticipated then that would not be very good CRM.
besides how do you know they are not training and the guy under training is flying his first line sector?
Obviously I don't. I'm just speaking more generally and not commenting specifically on these instances.