Good points Terry; however, this board is informal, and we're not all writers by a long shot. Would you expect layman mechanics to use the correct tools all the time--even when working on their own vehicles? Why is there a distinction between professionals and hobbyists, for instance?
I like this quotation: 75% of everything is crap!
Ask yourself "why"?
Why do people stop caring enough to improve? Is it lack of capacity or laziness?
Look at Helen Keller and what she accomplished in her lifetime without the power of sight or speech.
You have to have a burning desire inside of your nature to set about getting better and better and better... (notice the 3 dots?)
There is a trap, however. "Best" can end up merely being the obsessive compulsive prison of non-creativity. Precision is different from compulsion. Knowing the difference is intellect.
I recently read Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS and VladimirNabokov's LOLITA. Neither man had English as a native tongue! The prose is exquisite! Why? Why did these men care enough to learn English and master it?
It is either in us or it isn't.
We reveal what we are made of; our intellect when we speak or write. Is it a shabby cardboard box or a castle of divine proportions? We each are architects of our own devising.
(p.s. I had to go check my Vladimir Nabokov spelling on Google. I was wrong and had to change it!)