I'm sorry, but people with real expertise view everything as a complicated engineering trade off that's highly dependent on context.
That you're willing to jump in and unilaterally declare a common strategy used by hordes of clever people as a Bad Idea pointing only to your years of experience as proof probably says more about you than it does about the merits of the technique in question.
I sure hope it says something about me. And just for the record, IT is this terrible cesspit of reinvented wheels by hordes, so yeah, hordes are not right. Never will be.
That you're willing to jump in and unilaterally declare a common strategy used by hordes of clever people as a Bad Idea pointing only to your years of experience as proof probably says more about you than it does about the merits of the technique in question.