Laughlin approach pulls that crap all the time flyin' into DRT. They dump us in high on a radial all the time.
Don't worry about the critical comments, you did the right thing in asking and learning how to handle it in the future.
I'm sure the old man knew how to do it and was just seeing how you'd handle it. He did nothing knowing that you were so close to the course that there was no harm in it.
Fun doin' a "chop and drop" in a turboprop, huh?