I would be embarrassed to have placed myself in a phase of flight in a GA plane where raising flap for a continued landing could have any plausible benefit.
I couldn't disagree more strongly. We have primary flying controls for power, lift, drag, pitch, roll and yaw. There is nothing embarrassing about practising for the day when one or more of those controls is t/u or simply not up to the task. Catch a 500 fpm downdraft out of nowhere on short final to an alpine one-way like Corlier? Well, you can smack into the cliff face with old Steppy, or you can add full power, pitch forward
and lose some flap while he's still looking for his flight manual.
