Lots of good points here , and some dodgy ones ! Imho by no means is this a particularly demanding approach, a bit different I agree but that’s all . Many ways to skin a cat but looking outside is a good idea ! The old kai tak semi visual in a decent crosswind was what you might call challenging and there are many more places that require flexibility to get a decent result . As for this particular company preventing pilots from being pilots I totally agree. It seems they are taking good, or at least good average operators and turning them into poor ones . ATC in JFK are what they are, and have always been , they too can react quickly and efficiently in a very busy environment, listen to the Sully transcript as an example of thinking on ones feet , non standard perhaps but there are far far worse out there using standard phraseology .