the views of your learned peers from page 1
Except that it doesn't matter how learned you are. Unless you were there on the day, anything else is speculation and a bunch of armchair lawyers, experienced or not, are simply postulating and theorising based on their own flying (or not) experience.
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I don't possess your insight
Precisely
You want a safe flight, believe it or not, so do we! If it all goes belly up, I intend to get home to my wife and kids so I'll do what I've been trained to do to make that happen. That means you're coming along too. Even if the problem has a specific procedure to deal with it, the hard fought and gleaned experience of the crew is used to gather info, assess and decide on an appropriate response. We don't have the option to pull over and dip the oil! We do however, have people to read a realtime data download for things we can't see. All part of the decision process.
You're entitled to your view, but please don't expect it to detemine mine
Move on folks, there's nothing else to see here .......