Ed, I agree blah blah blah. there is no right way. There is only science. The science says that in order to prevent corrosion you must displace the stuff causing the corrosion with something neutral or slightly basic.
This is overly simplistic. You can have corrosion with a Ph of 7 or even way over 7. You can also have no corrosion with Ph well below 7. Not all acids eat all metals. And few do so above a Ph of 6 or so.
Many neat synthetic oils tend to be slightly acidic hence they require the addition of basic additives to neutralise acids in the oil on the metal parts.
These are there to neutralise acids that are formed with the mixture of blowby, water, and oil. I know of no synthetics that are so acid that they need neurtralizing from the oil itself.