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So even you agree pull ups are the best option. So why would she do lat-pull downs that have little to no carryover to pull ups? That makes absolutely no sense. If she wants to be able to do pull-ups, she needs to do pull-ups. Assisted or negatives. Even inverted rows will help have carry over. You don't even know that she can't do them. Again you are making unfounded assumptions. Just like you keep saying that there is some bias against pull downs and that they are useless. Many times we have stated that pull downs can have there place.
She is not training her body to get better at pullups. She is training pulldowns to make her body stronger. I don't get why you're not getting this. She is not training to get better at pullups.
She's 185 and pulls 60 pounds. Nothing wrong with that - she's just getting started. But she's not doing pullups yet, I'm pretty sure. When she gets to the point where she can do pullups, she should do them. And pulldowns.
What movements you pick will depend entirely upon your goals. Also lat pull downs and pull ups do not work the muscles in the same way. This was explained much earlier in the thread.
So eliminating one of them would eliminate one way of working those muscles. That's undesirable. I think you're getting it, slowly but surely.