I've been surprised a few times too, PHJim, to see this thread still has legs. Certainly on the general topic there is lots of opportunity to debate how much theory information is enough and under what circumstances, because no single answer suits all. And several peripheral topics have arisen to feed the chat mill, too. What's interesting is to see civil discussion repeatedly come through despite the cranky posts.

Not to suggest anyone is a dog, the pattern here feels somewhat like being at the off-leash park when a couple of dogs are having themselves a nice little bark-fest: Despite rounds of noise, other dogs can be found happily at play and some bipeds carry on their own intermittent conversations too.