I agree. We don’t know why this was done. We also can strongly surmise that a bunch of other airplanes ahead of and behind the mishap plane did the same approach and landing without incident.
It warrants looking into. As discussed in the omnibus aviation thread starting here: The Great Ongoing Aviation Thread (general and other) - #9714 by Johnny_L.A.
A blanket “This was dumb” is not really appropriate at this point. Maybe later, maybe not.