It's a "game" that never ends. For every grey haired Captain who'd like to be stable, 160 kts at the FAF, there's another in mid-life crisis in a slightly smaller jet who wanted to show us he could do 210 to the FAF and still make the second high-speed.
Before I retired, I beat my head bloody trying to impart a little wisdom in the next generation of controllers about speed control, and for every rule of thumb I would try to impart, there were three crews an hour trying to do their best to invalidate it.
To be fair, in another decade or so, some of my former trainees may some day learn to ask for winds at 3000' and 5000' when their sequences are all going to hell.
My reward was my team loved having me on finals, and now the Govt pays me a well earned, but ridiculous amount of money while I attempt to learn to control the flight of a golf ball as well as I once did a 727.
