TT, my point is that that landing demonstrated exactly the opposite, a lack of assertive flying.
Assertive flying would surely involve making the aeroplane do what you wanted it to do, ie getting on the centreline and kicking off at least some of the drift (but why not all of it - it isn't hard) instead of just accepting a horribly clumsy, inelegant and rather brutal off centreline landing with a big off-axis heading.
Not to mention avoiding much unwanted publicity by doing something that looks hair raising even though it isn't hazardous when you have an alternative.