Industry skill reduction
As far as i could see this was a well flown landing in challenging conditions and demonstrates the skill level that I would expect from someone in command of a large airliner.
Some of the stuff writen above is indicative of the de-skilling that is going on in the airline business, I am finding myself constantly flying with FO's who feel the need to ask me if it is OK to hand fly the aircraft past 400 ft on the way up and 500 ft on the way down.
Im not sure if this is them just being polite, but I get the feeling that hand flying skills are under practiced, the result of this being a downward spiral as confidence is lost in the hand flying skills.
There is a time and place to practice these skills, and also a time and place to go some other place if the weather is bad, but I forcast much more disruption in the business if hand flying skills are not regularly practiced and the children of the magenta line become fearfull of a bit of low level turbulance.