Weekly discussion: the meta (2026 edition) [v2]

Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, mods please remove if it is not.

I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right. Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

Maybe an unpopular opinion but here we go.