Very true pace
In the case of the OP, the first instructor is only teaching a powered on shallow approach for a long finals, so the student will only go away with the ability to do that one thing.
The second instructor is trying to teach the OP different techniques to approach, by coming in steeper and using the aircraft's energy to your benefit rather than just relying on power to get you down.
I'm not saying every approach should be steep, and will fly instrument approaches in light singles, but early on in training flying steeper low powered approaches are a far better way to get the student to learn the feel of the aircraft and what it is capable of, and then flying a long shallow approach is child's play by comparison.