Judd,
There is no lack of manners or good airmanship now, or then, and believe me, even the latter "DC-3" days (that's, almost, where I started) leg for leg was the norm. Flying leg for leg does not create "arguments", the Captain is the Captain, and every co-pilot knows it!
You have to go back to WW11 and immediately after to find examples of what you are describing, it didn't last long in Australia.
Some other countries, like the UK, it was a different matter.
Tootle pip!!