You're right, but keep in mind that I simplify to avoid textwalls, and do textwalls for fear of being misunderstood. All the footwork in the world will not help you with vicious (or even hard) if you aren't aware of your options. People get really good with the footwork and still get frustrated or stuck in the "I need this available on every run" mentality because of this. And this affected vets quite a bit - about half the time I spent with the game didn't teach me anything, yet every time someone gave up a locker slot and lockered something off the wall - it ended up opening my eyes to things I didn't even suspect was there. The game actively discourages letting go of triswords and dragonshields in a manner that very probably wasn't intended and this leads to us vets sounding like unreasonable fools about as often as we say something reasonable - we're not aware of what's in the game! After all this time!
EDIT: And untill you're aware of say, gods, you can't even develop proper footwork! You can only stick to what you're sure works, get better and better with the stuff you can't let out of your locker, and hit brick walls.
The point is not whether people will go looking for guides, the point is if they do - they will help them, and if they don't they'll get frustrated for the wrong reasons. This is why you have so few active vets - if it took less time to get to where I was a year ago, you'd probably have quite a few more. And it'd still take a big time investment. And you'd be getting bigger benefits from the ones you do have now. More sensible, concise and timely feedback, for one thing.