I think it's wrong to try and generalize much from this. This particular pilot clearly has trouble with the transition to wing-down in the combination technique. I'm quite happy to fly a wing-down approach, or a combination, and have no axe to grind either way. But what we're seeing here is an individual problem. The crosswind is a little gusty but it's not really at the level of being challenging for anyone with reasonable experience and technique. Maybe the guy was a student?