I am in agreement with what you are saying the problem for me at least having a somewhat broader and yet more distant view than most is that hand in hand with Doing it Right is the clear assumption that everything else is Doing it Wrong It is quite impossible to separate the how and the why since the why is based on an assumption that DIR is the revealed word rather than just one splinter of the tree that works well in certain circumstances Philosophically DIR is so defined by arguments as to what it is not rather than by what it is that funny as it sounds a good case can be made for much of DIR when applied to open water for example is a classic equipment solution to a skill problem It is not clear to me how this can be handled in an encyclopedia situation except by saying that DIR exists is controversial for a number of reasons and here are some links to websites that describe it