Just like color, it is different for most everyone who tries it. At its worst, we pray the numnuts who printed the images didn't fix them properly so they fade quickly, sparing us all the pain of looking at images that torture our psyche. Your vision will do more towards getting good results than all the darkroom tricks ever invented. The world does not need another technically perfect photographer pushing us to look at tonal range, print quality, paper surfaces, etc., when the pictures themselves are boring. Perfect technique of boring vision is overdone.
Weak technique used with a strong vision holds back the expression, but the vision is still there.
It needs strong technique to allow it to really shine. If you would communicate with an audience, be it family, friends or the worlds finest artists, match your vision with excellent technique so your images will show at their best. Getting confilcting information. This expert uses this, that one uses something else. Weston did something different and another printer uses Platinum.