I can not land my drone by visual sight alone even when I am just yards away. If I don’t have the gimbal down, I have to walk around the pad to make sure the drone is squarely over the pad.
What if perhaps this is not universal? What if your lack of landing accuracy at such a short distance is merely because it is not a skill you practice, and therefore it is not a skill you can achieve, let alone master?
Most drone pilots start out their 'career' starring at the screen so often and so much that they get to the point that; VLOS seems pointless if not outright impossible. But that is because, flying a dot around the sky with full mastery of heading and control cannot be picked up in an hour or a day or a month - it takes practice, a lot of it. Ask any RC pilot that got beyond three channel, slow, forgiving trainers - how long it took them before they could fly advanced aircraft and you'll find it took a dedicated effort.
The problem inherent in drones is that they don't require this particular skill in order to get (and stay) airborne.
It is far easier to stare at a screen and try to figure things out while the drone holds its position and allows the pilot time to 'catch up', than it is to build an intuitive sense of the drone flying in real time. But believe it or not, the latter is possible and superior in terms of SA.
In the US before drones, the FAA left regulation of all UA (RC), to the AMA. Once drones appeared and it became obvious that they fell into an unregulated crack (no skill or fixed flying sites needed), that is when our 'community' popped up on the radar of the FAA.
But the FAA did not pull these regulations (such as VLOS), out of their posterior, it was from decades of experience - a UA pilot that can operate his aircraft confidently via VLOS has a far greater sense of operational awareness than one that cannot. This is a simple fact.
The biggest reason for this is because; a proficient pilot is 'proactive' rather than 'reactive' to the
basics of flight. A proactive pilot (VLOS) that stays 'ahead' of his aircraft (meaning the aircraft is responding predictably and in accordance with the commands given), has far more available brain power and focus to deal with any external conditions or surprises that can occur in flight.