Yeah indeed, perhaps a new day and age where cost cutting and time saving rule but unless they change the law which i didnīt hear anything about then it can be seen to relaxed some of these new techniques cutting corners.
turn and slip i can give you another example also from the same airline perhaps a year ago by now. Where a regulator approved/allowed or didnīt spot (donīt know) an airline introducing a "reserved seating" policy including the emergency exit seats - and as a result since few people actually bought these seats flew around with no one sitting there. Not a very good move in the unlikely event of an evacuation - where passengers sitting there obviously need to assist opening the over-wing exit doors. But lo and behold thats what happened until someone brought it up with the regulator and it was later on changed.