I think some have missed my point, we’re talking about scenarios where we know, in law, that PT’s aren’t given, when they could technically be, but an actual try has been and that’s what we award. My point is that they’ve got a try, they’ve scored, very few are going to be unhappy with that.
There may be an unwritten rule that if they score a try you don’t get a PT, or that the additional mandatory YC is punishment too far (especially on a technical penalty) so it gets managed (avoided?) by not awarding a PT. I don’t know if these are true, but it seems like it and we go a lot with expected behaviour.
If someone argues the “could you have gone PT because ....” I wouldn’t expect you to give the thought processes above, they are invalid in law (unless you want to dig yourself a hole!), but they are in and around what we’re thinking, but it’s easy to counter if you want