Such cross checks are fundamental airmanship, and I don't think anyone could legitimately criticise anyone for performing them. However, they are not in typical SOPs, and the point has been made in thread after thread about the demise of airmanship and the rise of SOP dogmatism. No-one in their right mind likes it, but that is the modern culture almost everywhere. With inexperienced trainers, only recently promoted to command months before getting a training ticket and only a few thousand hours in their book becoming the norm, it's not going to get better, either.