Being an ex-limey (if such is really possible), I'll point out that the
logic of this rejection of gear warning devices is brought to you by the
same people that, at the beginning of WWI, didn't provide parchutes to their
pilots. They were concerned that pilots would bail-out as opposed to giving
it their all in the fight.

A few hapless pilots bailed out without a chute anyway, as it represented a
better way to die than being burned alive in the cockpit.

bumper
(saved once by the gear warning in a Mooney)