I know you’re just making a point, but I feel compelled to say training isn’t performing.
There is also a very different hormonal cascade - adrenaline can be our friend when circumstances differ from the norm.
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This is the big part of it. We do things in training to make us perform our best, which ISN’T the performance. Just like how pro-football teams don’t become champions by just playing a full game of football every time they practice, nor do pro-boxers just got have a full match every time they train, we specifically do things in training that are DIFFERENT from THE event so that, when the event shows up, we can perform.
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Agreed
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Not really. Unless I start feeling really stiff and immobile. Even then, that usually entails I spend a little more time in the lighter weights moving through the motion instead of static stretching or using bands.
Only time I really do traditional warmups and try to get blood flow is if I’m injured
This post is inspired by some of the pictures in a recent post by @DoesTheHeavyLifting in the things that piss you off thread, but I thought I’d throw out something I do but never considered a warmup.
Rerack and organize the weights other people leave laying around.
It’s great 3-d movement, stretching and getting your heart rate up are included, plus it gets your agression up by being a public fuck you to other people.
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I organize plates when they are put back randomly on a given rack if I am doing that exercise. I never thought about doing this for dumbbells - it would be a neverending job at one gym I use. I commend you for your public spirit; perhaps your OCD. 
I do the same thing and consider it “active recovery.”
Big fan of box jumps as part of my squat warmup and standing long jumps as part of my deadlift warmup. Started doing them as part of Wendler’s Beyond 5/3/1 program.