strangely enough I have no problem with what the ato did.
in reality an engine failure if it occurs will never occur at some convenient time.
however to pull an EFATO in gusty conditions was somewhat stupid.
You have no problem with what he did, but it was somewhat stupid?
I will cut some slack, I think we know what you really meant.
The point is very simply this. Any test/check is to assess various skills or attributes, and you can't do everything. So with EFATO you need to check for two things as I detailed above.
The argument of "if it was a real one you don't get to choose when or where" does not wash with me. If you actually have one from 50' in those conditions, and you bend nothing that is awesome, but if the failure resulted in the same outcome as in the report, because you did it mostly right but were caught out with gusts, well who cares. The object then is not to kill yourself.
There is no point trying to kill yourself or bend metal in a training/testing environment.