You are a real wise old timer; I like the way you think.
However, anal retentive powers that be do not allow this prudent de isin making anymore. We must " follow the book ". Otherwise you have arm chair experts gunning for your six.
An f/o as PF touching down at 3001 feet beyond the threshold on a 14000ft LDA runway at well below MLDW will get the captain in big doo-doo, thanks to FOQA. No amount of explaining as to the stupidity of waiving off such a landing when all things under safe control will satisfy big ego FOQA hawks who just want to see you punished. They need " to be seen doing a great job " of taking others a notch or two to satisfy a target quota.