I agree. Whilst I have never been there it is sanguine reading the reports and Aftermaths in Flying of instrument pilots with vast experience and heaps of hours who get behind the curve for various reasons - IFR at night with very low bases being a repeating example; those who might be alive today if they had fessed up and asked for an SRA. In fact a very good friend of mine had been instructing all day, admitted to being tired and stressed, ended up with a night sortie and so nearly ended up in the drink. There weren't to many skills lacking, but he just didn't realise that the HF were getting ahead of him and the aircraft. As he now says, he got lucky, and got away with it, very nearly didn't.
There we all go but for, and I suspect the moment we become complacent or unwilling to fess up we are making a cardinal sin. The last line of defense it maybe, but its is a bloo** good last line.