I think it is entirely reasonable to ask "what reason to we have to think this is good advice"?
Somewhere in there, it's doesn't matter if it's "advice" or whatever you want to call it, as long as it's shareable elucidation you can apply your own reasoning...but if you don't bother to follow the pattern, it doesn't matter what you think. Asking someone else to have done these steps for you, is a proxy for a lack of interest, imo. Everyone wants to be lazily told things they either already know or can agree with easily, but being critical in a constructive way is work.
If you were building a bridge, you wouldn't accept that you have to use particular type of beams just because a certain well-known bridge architect Fartin Mowler recommends it, and tells stories of how good bridges are when they're using these beams. You probably wouldn't discard the advice either, but you'd ask for more detailed, first-principles explanation, you'd ask to see the plans and the studies of the bridges with these beams, etc.