No, it's not; the fullness of our glasses is orthogonal to the specific cryptographic issue we're discussing. I would recommend against the NIST P- curves.
One fortunate result of the Snowden disclosures is that for several reasons, some rational and some irrational, the market value of NIST/FIPS certification has plummeted --- it's still an issue if you're selling to the government, but no longer carries security cachet.
As a result, there's minimal upside to adopting cryptographic primitives and constructions simply because they have NIST standards backing them. Which means there's minimal upside to using the NIST curves.
Meanwhile, there are multiple downsides. One of them is the potential for backdoors, but I don't need to reach that issue in my analysis because another is the difficulty of safely implementing curve software with the NIST P-curves.
