There is more than one way to skin a cat.

We are products of our environment/ experience. What worked for me, because of the path I took, may not have worked for someone else coming from a different path.

Stopper gas tanks are a good example. A stopper tank may work fine with gasoline without ethanol, but the gasoline available around here has ethanol. So they do not work well.

Another good example is a recent thread on installing hinges. I do not think any poster with a technique ever admitted to having a failure. And they all had a different way of doing it. Of course a couple professed their way as the only way. Well obviously they overstated their view.