Exactly and then how many times was a shutter not pushed because it didn't fit in to some pre conceived idea of what it should have been or as we have all seen how many photographs are dismissed as not being good because they didn'tr fit into a pre conceived idea of a rule like RoTs. And then which rule do you follow. Some landscape guys are/were following a rule of 1/5th or some refer to it as 4?5ths which pushes the subject/interest closer to the edge.
I totally agree with Maisel in the piece I posted previously.