Carmoisine - my words "is that not enough to decide how to do it in the first place??" referred to the need to touch down in the right place with the right flap inside tailwind limits, and not "about saving time and money" or "sound operational reasons" with which I am quite familiar. There are, of course, times when they are not the right reasons either.
Regarding tailwinds, I am still in a small state of shock that they should need to be "emphasized ............as they should have been" but it certainly does seem to be a growing missing part of pilot psyche/instinct and appears to need covering in your airline and AA and probably many others. Likewise the need for TEM or 'emphasis' to be 'primed to perform a go around when the float developed'?? I use the hairs on the back of my neck. They tend to be reliable.
I guess as we 'lose' the pilots who grew up in gliders and then taildraggers and probably had instructors who 'knew a bit' we will encounter more and more absent 'basic' commonsense through the compressed minimal training and P2F. I fear the AF447 accident is a classic example of this loss of 'airmanship' as it used to be known.