the hang'em high and shoot'em brigage are adding nothing to safety
Never a truer word spoken in aviation.
With you on this one RAT - boring, predictable, safe and stress free. I declined a similar approach on behalf of the FO once (because I was concerned about tailwind) to much derision/pi$$ taking as we trundled downwind. At 30' on final, I casually pointed out the 20+ knot wind we would have had up our backside had we opted for the straight in. Surface wind was reported as "calm"......
The term "I declined on behalf of the FO" implies a certain amount of narcism which is really not the done thing in aviation. I am sure that less smug phraseology and attitude would be apo pro.