What might seem important to one person can be seen as an extravagence by another. There is not one geography, and there are many geographers. As absolute as we might like things to be, they are not. There are also many truths. Anyone who thinks that there is only one way to address any one research topic is fooling him or herself.
People look at the world differently.
To illustrate, a few years ago a group of Tarahumar Indians were brought to Tucson from Sierra Madre of Mexico to be active participants in a museum exhibit of life in caves. These people were put-up in a local motel and the next morning the maid was stunned at what she found. These people had not used the sink. They had drunk out of the toilet. And, they had defecated in the potted plants.