It's all the little things that add up. Nothing is really unsafe or radical, but it's the way things are done that is the problem. It'll be the intercept heading or the radar vector, the sequencing. Held high, slowed down and track shortened. Vectored to intercept an 'abbreviated ILS' at a 45 degree angle from above.
As pilots we do things the same way every time. That way we know pretty quickly when it's going pear shaped. In Millitaty CTA it's always different. There is no real standard flow. The civilian ATC generally operate a certain way and its predictable.