It's perfectly acceptable in EK to fly a visual, as long as it complies with what's written down in terms of safety and preference.
The trouble ALWAYS starts when the guy sitting next to you considers it safer to land with 10kts of tailwind on an ILS, rather than a radar vector to a visual, aka 16/34 in SYD where my "commander" thought it more prudent to ask for the ILS on 34 with 12 kts up the chuff, whilst the landing runway was 16 with vectors to a 5 mile final
Long and the short of it, my colleague "allowed" me to fly the approach only after ATC advised of a 40 minute delay in getting the other end.
There are some guys here that attempt to absolve themselves of any responsibility for decision making as they lack the intelligence to be able to justify their thought process.