One caveat I would put is that ATC will always cover their backs so that in event of an accident they are not involved in blame.
I can remember donkeys years ago being in a position where we had to land a twin and land quickly.
The military base were colour code red with an 80 foot cloud base. On hearing the problem we were vectored for a PAR and had the usual chatter all the way down to the point that if not visual at the minima on the PAR we should miss.
Obviously we were not visual and they knew it too so having passed that information intensified the talk down till the high intensity lights became visual at 80 feet
but great bunch of intuitive people
Pace