i agree you could argue a differnt number than 1000ft and actually if you are of the mindset to break a rule then frankly does it matter anyway?
What is a worry is that here is another multi thousand hour professional pilot nearly going the way of other recent multi thousand hour professional pilots with some shocking airmanship, worse the co pilot said nothing in the early stages and became paralysed with fear and still said nothing. It then takes over 2 years for this nonsense to become widely known and reported.
That isn't an industry in my opinion that is keen to really change that's one that really believes it won't happen to them.