Oh, you're not locked into anything, it's just the most boring, simple way to do things if you really want to just fast forward through something to get to something regardless of classess and races and stuff. You know, when people don't have 30 runs worth of RL time to get anywhere, at least untill it's hopefully de-bugged and stuff. And yeah, it's kind of balanced by peoples minds resisting the idea that anything that stupid and straightforward could actually work XD Almost like a debug mode console cheat or smth... The funny thing is is that it's quite reliable even without the signature elements, the signature stuff just makes it flat out broken.
EDIT: But in terms of power and reliablity, it's pretty safe to say that it's basically the no.1 recommended strat on about 90% of the dungeons, often (not always) on top of most race/class/god combos which are stictly advantaged in those dungeons, and completely destroys the point of about 10+ dungeons, and about 4 badges, all togather. Noone's locked into it, ofc, because it's not really supposed to exist, it's only there because people were either too confused by the pissorf tooltip, or because it makes 0 sense that it should actually work (because too much other stuff doesn't make sense if it does). It's also why it isn't all over the wiki - no sane tester would've let that through if we were fully aware of how silly it is, except it just slipped by thanks to sheer banal disbelief-inducing outrageousness. If we knew about it it would be widely know as "that DD breaking strat", atlest untill the devs got fed up with it being everywere. Which is what happened to all other stuff like that, eventually.