Quote why spurn a good check?
I wholeheartedly agree, the problem is that most of the UK published checklists are wrong when it comes to the engine drills.
Most of them have been written in a way that is an a%#? Covering excersise for the publisher.
Instructors are using them as "do lists" rather than to check that the actions have been carried out.
I have no problem with a well disciplined system of checking that the required actions have been done, what I object to is folklore that is masquerading as airmanship.