Rat5, are you suggesting that an altimeter check is a bad practice?
Quite the opposite. In Line Training & Line Flying I used to demonstrate the X-check of RA 2500' & bro made sense knowing where you were. It was not a perfect match due terrain, but if you had SA you could make sense of it. My post was this: this addition to help SA should be airmanship and it's sad if it is only does by those who have an SOP to tell them to do it.
In many airlines the RA EGPWS blurts out an alert and the crew respond like parrots without thinking. That is the consequence of many SOP call outs I've experienced. They really were a Parrot Pantomime.