Just an honest observation.
I agree with you about not overcomplicating things; not advocating the mathematical flare at all. Just saying you've got to look, no, SEE, where the aircraft is going to control it in all 3 dimensions and that involves not staring at the aiming point or the ground just in front of it, but rather, the far end of the runway or the horizon.
AFAIK this is the way its been taught since pre WWII so that may explain why everybody has so many successful landings as you say!