Everybody has their preference in learning style. People tend to be protective of the way they do things for reasons, I think especially so with study methods because an enourmous amount of time and effort goes into them. If you're doing things one way, and another way leads to success, it might mean you're doing things "wrong", which would mean you're wasting time either because you won't get to your goal, or you're taking an unnecessarily long route. My guess is it's the sunken costs fallacy mixed with the usual wanting to be right, and a feeling of defensiveness about our actions. It's not really in our DNA to think there's multiple ways to skin a cat, certainly not that there are many ways that are just as effective. We want to know that we have found THE most effective, efficient, sensible way to get that hide.
Going back to the original example, I think it displays throughout, an unwillingness to actually give the technique a genuine attempt. Right off the bat, the user is telling you to abandon the technique before you've even tried it, to keep only the keywords and kanji connection, and to use them in exactly the opposite fashion to how they're intended. That's a perfectly plausible suggestion coming from someone who's had success doing it that way, not so much from someone who is insisting the technique is an outright waste of time. I also like how they throw doubt on Heisig's language ability, and throw out totally unsabstantiated "suspicions" that a simple google search would show are ridiculous. He's one of the few foreigners to make himself a name in serious Japanese Academia, it's quite obvious just from that alone that the man can probably wield pretty decent Japanese.
That's a good indicator that somebody is just being knee-jerk because they didn't use the technique, and they don't want to think that their life might have been easier if they had.
Going back to the original example, I think it displays throughout, an unwillingness to actually give the technique a genuine attempt. Right off the bat, the user is telling you to abandon the technique before you've even tried it, to keep only the keywords and kanji connection, and to use them in exactly the opposite fashion to how they're intended. That's a perfectly plausible suggestion coming from someone who's had success doing it that way, not so much from someone who is insisting the technique is an outright waste of time. I also like how they throw doubt on Heisig's language ability, and throw out totally unsabstantiated "suspicions" that a simple google search would show are ridiculous. He's one of the few foreigners to make himself a name in serious Japanese Academia, it's quite obvious just from that alone that the man can probably wield pretty decent Japanese.
That's a good indicator that somebody is just being knee-jerk because they didn't use the technique, and they don't want to think that their life might have been easier if they had.