[alexiskai]

One thing that I think can be hard for outsiders reading a discussion like this is to distinguish between someone saying "this is how I prioritize the trade-offs for this particular decision, I did it this way, and I got the results I wanted" versus "this way is good and the other ways are bad." Because the typical owner isn't going to be pushing their engine's performance limits in any way, there's a lot of room for multiple approaches that "work."