Dave B,
Your comments can equally be applied to the doers.
Over the last several years I see as much bad advice from the doers.
Many repeat the same rhetoric of those before them, without understanding.
Advice I gave my Kids, beware who you listen to. Learn from those that have achieved what you want. Unfortunately often I can't find such a person. At this point I must become, by learning. Doing is a noble thing. Yet, because you copied another design does not make you a designer, nor a theorist. It does make you a builder.
When I first came here it was evident the theory was lacking. If something does not compute to me then the theory is wrong. Yes, understood my a few, not the many, the complete story was NOT right. I do acknowledge many do not want to know, they are happy with a wind turbine supplying their power and do not care how or why. Nothing wrong with that. I could not build a wind turbine without knowing everything about it. That is just the way I am.
Over the years I helped others design and build a solar MPPT, charge controller, load dump many others things in my over 800 postings. Would this be a better place without me?
OK, enjoy your rant, hope you had a nice holiday!
Have fun,
Scott.