Reminds me of that wacko 'monitored approach' some carriers were using a while back for low viz operations. One pilot would fly the plane to minimums and then hand over control to the other pilot to do the landing.
Sounds like an urban legend but I think it was actually an operational fad at one time, kinda like not using reverse to save the engines.
That's still SOP for many carriers, I believe (in Europe, and U.S. regionals). Monitored approaches isn't inherently good/bad; there's pros and cons to everything.