Its the lack of handling and landing ability not higher speeds on approach which causes broken nose wheels.
Exactly, and that is because the training industry has allowed the training to be dumbed down to a " Paint by numbers " teaching process rather than teaching the students to be artists.
I have flown with some who are not even new pilots who tense on the landing and almost seem surprised and relieved when it touches down ok.
We were at the airport a few days ago sitting in front of the hangar in the sun talking and watching airplanes and it was interesting to watch so many approach in a nose high attitude and no flare at all, they just set up a fixed nose high attitude and wait and pray for runway contact hopefully while there is still runway below them.
Incipient recovery has had a number of threads started where the pilots are not confident in stalling on their own for fear of getting it wrong and ending up in unknown territory (i.e. spins)
Even the FAA are now looking at adding more handling in the syllabus after a spate of accidents and even one Airline crash where handling has not been up to standard.
This is probably the area which has got weaker in modern flight training and was stronger in the past
Bang on Pace......seems the idea is to teach to the lowest common denominator that will churn out airplane drivers.