HC.
Come on now..as a wise TRE you should know that you shouldn’t belittle a pilot for sticking to EOP’s!..... err, that would be wrong, wouldn’t it?
After TDP/Before LDP on a dark, poor viz night flight, Sticking to the manufacturers RFM procedures and Company SOP’s EOP’s and ECL drills is just what you should do. For the sake of standards and CRM. If you do and that still isn’t enough then so be it. If you don’t and it goes ‘Pete Tong’ then you’ll be hung out to dry if you survived.
I appreciate your lateral ideas as an experienced pilot and see where you are coming from. Having a good systems knowledge and ideas about how to tackle the subsequent what if scenarios is fine up ones sleeve. Just advocating a point for the sake of those lesser mortals hanging on the words of the wise.
TC..Has the right idea.