The airports are ridiculous to me because your operating the plane to the limit.
Those figures in the AFM are derived from a Test Pilot - as much as I like to think of myself as a Sky God I'm not and as such would not want to operate the aircraft to it's limitation.
I think if your operating privately then you should really be thinking about personal minimums rather then legal minimums ie the AFM says we can go, so lets go!
Anyway it's different strokes for different folks but give me safety factors, long runways and clean underpants any day of the week and you can keep your short runways
