turn of phrase whopity.
In stead of easing the crab out gradually its a more positive alignment to the runway track.
As said previously this can go round and round in circles.
Some aircraft seem to prefer decrabing and flying crossed controls and others seem to prefer kicking,easing,applying rudder just before touch down. Just like some its better to pitch for airspeed instead of point and power.
All the light aircraft I have flown seem to work well with taking the crab out just before the flare. The just before touch down in my experence does work but has a much higher chance of folk not quite getting it right. The set the rudder and hold it and control the slip with roll seems to have better results. I don't like those that say that the plane should be flown all down the approach cross controls which is just plane stupid.
The main problem with most tricycle pilots is that they don't use the rudder enough in all stages of flight and when they do use it they don't have the same controlled touch that they do with the stick. The taildragger/glider pilots don't seem to have the same problems and seem to be much more coordinated with thier control inputs.