I've made a career of taking pull down sequences out of videos to prep for DVD->Blu-ray->streaming. Where others have failed, I have properly restored. "Others" for eample are FAANG's streaming services. Everyone wants it to be a single button IVTC, "set it and forget it" like you said. Shot on 24fps film, edited at 29.97 with pull down where every edit is a break in cadence, 30i graphics/bumpers, and some shows (I'm looking at you The Shield) where they shot 30fps film for a special look/feel during certain scenes, and a set-it-forget IVTC will not do well at all.
> To be completely frank I've looked down on UK/EU broadcast techs a little ever since because being able to set everything to 25fps and forget about it is easy street.
My experience has been the reverse. Because they can, people in UK/EU have historically cared much more about frame accuracy. It’s only in the last 10 years or so that people in North America have started caring about frame accuracy. In the past it’s been quite hard to do because of the non integer frame rate.
My friend insisted I was just imagining it, but only one of us went on to have a career doing post-production in the US market. To be completely frank I've looked down on UK/EU broadcast techs a little ever since because being able to set everything to 25fps and forget about it is easy street.