I've never flown the Dash 8 +TSRA but from riding in the back many times it sure has a firm arrival most of the time, it sort of feels like the main gear is bolted to the bottom of the seat with no shock absorbing built in.
For sure all airplanes do not handle the same.
However my curiosity was caused by reading so many conversations where the pilots describe a good landing as one that is banged on, somehow I missed the era when we strived for such an arrival, if we needed a firm touch down it was accomplished by wheel contact and the stall happening at the same time which meant a high alfa arrival at a controlled rate of descent at touch down.
Generally speaking the runways that commercial aviation use are long enough that you do not have to perform a maximum short landing very often.
My favorite runway is 20L at SBRJ it is just over 4300 feet and they operate 737's there with no problem.
Great view on final landing there.
You don't necessarily have to bang it on but runway behind you is useless.
Exactly, it is all about flying accurately.