I wasn't appealing to authority, I was relaying information from the podcast related to OP's question about a slow transition from LP to intermediate programming. The part of my quote you conveniently left out was: "From what I heard in their podcast."
That's a fair enough point and fwiw I'm sticking to PPST's recommendations until I hear more about their programming and see results like I have already seen on this forum.
I left it out because it wasn't pertinent. When you say "I assume..." this means YOU are making an analysis based on YOUR limited information (this isn't a dig no one can know everything and predictions are by their very nature assumptions). You are thus making your own statement based on your own analysis. Don't pawn it off and now say that you were just "relaying information". That does not require analysis just regurgitation.