40 kts is roughly 20 meters per second.
Runways are generally 45 meters wide and obviously we land in the middle.
Your complaining about a couple of hours delay because someone with 1000s of hours experience has decided a little delay is a good offset for being off the runway in 1 second if it doesn't go well.
Take a look at you tube. I can attest I've been in 35 kts in Adelaide once in my career and it isn't pretty.
As far as ATC are concerned I think these days airline rather cop the delay in the ground rather than a hours holding