A37 - your last para is answered by your penultimate - and it is not 'cynicism'. When you make an aeroplane that will be flown all over the world by all sorts of pilots, what would YOU do? Produce an aircraft 'manual' in several editions, one for aces who have come up through tailwheelers down to edition 5 for those 3rd worlders who have their first swept jet in their company? Then 'control' distribution to avoid legal traps?
Surely the 'aces' will know enough to work out for themselves how to land a 737 in a crosswind without pictures? I cannot see the problem.