YOU and your folks seem to have lost the idea of controlling speed precisely and energy management. I've seen people fly like you are describing...and it is a poor excuse for actively controlling flight path at proper speed using stick rudder and throttle. (flaps too).
To those who have followed this thread with interest I offer this.
WHY does VASI exist at airport without instrument approaches and with runways as short or shorter than 2500' ?
How would these pseudo experts from across the pond land at an airport at night? How would they deal with descending into a ''black hole''?
Starting with the first of these points, there is NOTHING in the posts you refer to that mean a pilot not flying a 3 degree slope cannot control speed precisely on a consistent flight path, indeed, I have seen more people fixate on the ILS/VASIs and lose their speed control than lose speed control and slope visually without the aids
Why do they have VASIs at shorter airfields, well presumably for those pilots who cannot manage without!
How do we land at an airport at night - well proper training, certainly when I was taught night flying many airfields here did not have VASIs or ILS, and if these were available, part of the training was to have these turned off - this then of course begs the question - how do you manage YOUR side of the pond if you ever need to land at night WITHOUT these aids???
As far as your pilot who was taught to set a power and not adjust it, that is not a method I have EVER heard of and certainly not anything any instructor I know would teach, VASIs or no VASIs, and I am amazed he managed to get a licence!