As always there are many ways to skin a cat and end up with a great meal.
Some of you have seen people getting hurt donning the rig overhead, I'd like to ask them: have you not seem also people getting hurt donning gear by swinging it around? or some other methods of donning?
I have... I've even seen people squirming into a BC set on a bench and end up so twisted they were 100% immobilized, I did see it but can't quite describe how in the world they ended up tied up.
Some people (maybe old farts, I admit) started diving before all the experts over-analized to death every single step of the "get your gear" process. I learned the word "donning" just a few years ago.
Most of the people that get their stuff over head, didn't start doing this last week, they started quite a bit ago with different gear, a lot simpler gear. Their gear changed over the years but only the procedures that "needed" change did so.
To call these people macho is inaccurate (to say the least). The fact that today's diving is done for the masses doesn't allow individuals do their thing.
I agree with people complaining about idiots doing things they don't know how to do. But just because someone didn't start doing things in a certain way (and this includes the blessed mask on forehead) doesn't make that action on itself bad-unsafe- macho or whatever the scuba dictators want to make.