Well, all I can say is there are plenty of anal-retentive aviators at our airline. My personal motto is to try and un-complicate things and if I can help you out in the tower by watching a Boeing blast off to the South, while we are heading West I am happy to help. I hope I speak for the majority, but these days I don't know.

I used to fly in and out of DFW before they had a boatload of runways. This was also when AA, DL, Eagle, and ASA made DFW one of the world's busiest airports. Our airline would land 17R with an AA or two holding short to cross downfield. No long after landing and when we felt it was appropriate, we'd tell the tower - "XX 412's at taxi speed". They would then give crossing clearance to the jets holding downfield, granted 4,000 feet or so ahead of us, but by the time we told them "taxi-speed", we were below 80kts. In our opinion it helped the tower, and that would come back to us one day and it usually did.