In my experience, shift/reduce conflicts typically reflect real ambiguities, at least in your initial draft of a grammar. Reporting them at that stage is a good thing; you should be addressing them instead of glossing over them.
There are legitimate reasons to need more power than LALR(1) provides, but careless thinking is more common.
There are legitimate reasons to need more power than LALR(1) provides, but careless thinking is more common.