I completely agree with Keits here (and I even liked your post 
), but I don’t like to use the devs opinions as if they are facts. Sure it’s good to know what the devs vision is but there are a bunch of developers who make awesome games but their personal views on certain aspects doesn’t necessarily match mine for good reasons.
Take for example David Sirlin, designer of the rebalanced edition of Super Street Figher 2 Turbo HD Remix. He has a whole series on playing to win and another on game balance and usually I agree with most of the points he made there, but he hates Killer Instinct and thinks this is a joke of a game. Everything he said after that statement is just jumbled unintelligible mess to me.
Even then I really do like this way of thinking. The tools are there and they are not secret (even if they aren’t on the tutorial, the internet has plenty of places where these tools are explained), it’s your choice to dedicate the time to use them.