CEJM
Can you explain a bit more about where you actually fly your widebody please. If 50% of your flights are NDB or visual you must fly to some pretty strange dest inations in some quite nice weather. Some of the new widebodies aren't even fitted with NDB and in any serious weather the beacon itself is very unreliable. What widebody do you fly? The whole point about being very wary of visual approaches is that very few people do them at all let alone 50% of the time.
For a major airport like SFO to take away the ILS and the PAPI at the same time is questionable to say the least. I feel some US ATC is pretty cavalier when dealing with big jets and I do have experience in LAX, SFO and JFK flying 747 Classic, 744 and 777.