Agreed, landings on short runways shouldn't be too far away from VREF, but approaching with 1.3 and retarding the throttles e. g. over the threashold will give you closer landing speeds without the need for going GA-like, meaning near stall and high flare pitch angles.

I saw some pilots talking about Airliners to come down very close to stall but you may agree that this should be the uncommon way of landing the big birds.

Gusts and too soon flares are great dangers there, at least expensive ones when e. g. the tail touches before the wheels because the pilot tried to do it extra smooth.  ;D