vilas
Well, if you throw a stone at a herd of sheep, it's the one who gets hit that yells ....
On another note: I don't quite get you:
One one hand you say ...
However as I have mentioned it before that armed only with FCOM developing procedures on FBW aircraft is asking for trouble
... on what i could agree with you, only to hear you state ...
You may have noticed many things suggested on PPRUNE vary from highly professional to downright dangerous. None of them can replace SOPs
... which puts you right back to the pilots i fear, citing solely FCOM, QRH and ABNs, as in your post below.
Now what is it?
You can recite whatever you want, i will stand firm that on a high speed excursion at high altitude the chances that you will expose an aircraft to a dangerous situation are very much slimmer than falling into a very much more dangerous low speed situation when extending speed-brakes.
Once more: The last decades saw no aircraft crash due to high speed at altitude, but several crashed due to high altitude stalls.
Your choice where common sense lies.