[kstenerud]

The problem is that these kinds of things become shackles for the mind, denying the agency and mental suppleness required to navigate a changing and chaotic world for which we can never achieve perfect knowledge (or even anything remotely close to it).

There is no such thing as a perfect set of rules or practices - only things that are useful in certain contexts. It is the practitioner's task to decide which principles apply, and to what degree.

Saying "You're not doing [brand new popular thing] unless you do it this exact way" is a trap laid for neophytes who lack the experience to discern that this is just arrogant bullshit, denying them the exercise of their own brain to judge what applies where (and learn from their mistakes).