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I did say is good prep for someone who needs experience.
I think for someone with a full time job, who doesn't have a massive training load, keeping as much fitness as possible is the most important thing, but just make damn sure you're rested and fresh at the start. So not backing off until the week before. I won't touch my bike really for the 5 days before.
We're both right. As you say, everyone is different. Like I said, I could never and would never train like you do. It'd kill me. And you'd hate how I train. But I like it, so it works. Everyones body is different.
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Doing less might make him slower or it might make him faster, like you say it depends on how he's responding to training currently - we're both wrong or are we both right? :)
I did a 600k three weeks out because I didn't have the bike until then and I needed to in order to get the confidence that I wouldn't do damage to something over the TCR. I wouldn't have chosen to but sorting out the bike is more important than physical fitness on these multi day events (at least when you're midpack fodder like me).