Doing a 'down and welded' check in a fixed grear can lead to trouble in a retract.
Of course I disagree, but we won't fight about it, if everyone was always in agreement we'd have World Peace !
To follow your philosophy would require me to have two different " memory " check lists to recall, one for fixed gear and prop. and one for retractable and variable. For the last 57 years I've used BUMPFF for my downwind check in every GA light aeroplane, and I ain't going to change now, should the aircraft require a more complicated check then I use the printed version, also I don't "chant" a reply in parrot fashion, one asks the question of oneself and replies with a considered answer, in a Cessna I could just say 'not applicable' - down and welded is only a bit of light relief - but at least it proves that I have thought about gear, which might be essential tomorrow when I fly my ALPI-300.
I've seen students read and respond to a printed check list without pause and without even lifting their eyes from the page - that's not the answer either, at least by mentioning it to myself there's a slight chance that I may do something about it when it matters. n'est ce pas ?