What is the difference between a crabbed and de-crab landing?
Consider where the center of gravity is in relation to the main wheels. If you are in a tail dragger, you definitely would prefer to de-crab (never heard that term before now) before touching down. If you touched down while crabbed, you'd have a moment created by the center of gravity around the main gear to ground loop the airplane.

In a tricycle gear airplane, that same moment would work to straighten the airplane since the center of gravity is forward of the main gear.

In a crosswind from the right, for example, when you apply left rudder to align the aircraft with the runway, the right wing will want to come up (you just gave it a little extra speed), so you will want to use right aileron to at least counter that as you certainly don't want the crosswind component to get 'under' the wing.

Both 747 operators I flew for recommended touching down in the crab. Personally I didn't like that and used a combination approach in a heavy crosswind, take out some of the crab but not all. Also, while they did caution against lowering the upwind wing, I always lowered the wing a little. I once figured out how much the wing would have to be lowered before ground contact, and it was quite substantial, more than I would ever think of using. Also, as I remember, It would not be the wingtip or an outboard engine pod that would make first contact, but rather the outboard corner of the outboard wing flap when set to flaps 30.

Finally, when your touch down speed is 140 knots, for example, you'll have to crab much less for a given crosswind component than if your touchdown speed is 70 knots. Cosine or tangent of the angle, I forget which.