This should be to encourage basic airmanship and awareness and promote the crews ability to operate big picture into a multitude of challenging and complex environments that our variable route network provides.
Yep, spot on, standardisation has rapidly becoming lobotomisation, were it is more important to nail standard calls and techniques than to have any usable awareness. If I had a $ for every radio call I have had interrupted by a 'clear right side' or completely unimportant MSDU status message, I would happily be able to give up next years profit share ;p