Might have to call BS on your BS. Top teams are more and more using the cross field kick to the winger when defences become narrow, and that's almost always in and around the 22. And not always when they have a pen. The issue is that England aren't narrowing defences enough to have the option, and then don't execute the cross field kick with enough accuracy when they do. We also see dinks over the top, grabbers etc. the issue is, England kick as part of a formula, 2 sets kick repeat. The kick type is always the same. There's no mystery, nothing to keep opposition on their toes, so it's easy to defend. The first time we saw England use the kick option to good effect was the drop goals in the Argentina game. Against teams like SA, who have incredibly strong defence, we will need kick options like that in the 22 if, after a number of phases we aren't making progress, otherwise they will just hunker down, and each time you go into contact you give them the chance to turn the ball over, which becomes ever more certain as time goes on.