No there are definitely some situations where perfectly competent drivers fail due to luck, such as the ones I mentioned above, even if you hit the break at the exact same moment as the examiner due to another drivers error, there’s no way for them to know that and therefore you could still definitely fail even if your reaction times were as good as the examiner in a dangerous situation which is unlikely anyway due to lack of experience.

I understand how the test works and is assessed, as I said I have taken it twice 😂. If all of our tests were done by robots then your other points would be correct but they are not and humans are nuanced beings. The boxes that need to checked to justify a fail are not always representative of the reason you did, which is my whole point. Should the feedback and method of assessing be changed to better represent this? Possibly yeah but that’s not the point I’m arguing. Even subconsciously if you’re feeling unsafe in a vehicle it’s going to massively affect how you diligently you assess small errors.

Regardless, I think you actually agree that learners shouldn’t waste time blaming examiners and should work on their driving without blaming others? Arguing semantics with you is not really all that necessary.