I'm not going to argue against you, since I think I've learned a thing or two from your earlier posts already since 2007 when I joined this forum and on the other hand I have no previous tuning experience with any cars and I only tune my Vette anyway. So who I am to recommend anything? Instead, I DO listen what you write here!
Being said that, I think that at least earlier there has been some false information in this forum. I guess it's just a nature of Internet forums, where everyone can post whatever they want. But since this is a community, false information gets corrected sooner or later. Which is good.
Now, since you say that LTFT's are not that useful for tuning compared to WB, my response here is: maybe it's not that black and white. For milder cams, maybe it's just ok to use LTFT's, but on the other hand, for big cams maybe WB is better. In any case, hand smoothing is always preferred, right?
A minor topic here I would like to mention is that many tuning tricks do seem to depend many other things. For example things like "remember to copy high octane table to low octane table"... but then later I noticed that since I have 2 bar COS, that doesn't apply. And so on. Maybe the applicability with LTFT-based tuning is another example - perhaps it only works with small cams.
Finally, I do have something to ask from you. How come there seems to be variation between pro tuners what to do in certain situations? You see, it was one from the pro's here I learned to use LTFT's for VE tuning. They do state in their documents roughly following: "There are many ways...to make changes to the...VE table. This is the method presented....and recommended by....NNN."
After purchasing pretty much all books and documents available for GM PCM tuning and some .hpt files from pro tuners as well, I have a some understanding of the basics and now my car runs fine. But what's the final truth of the right way to do tuning...let's see if we'll get that far.