I respect the advice and agree with you generally, but I think adding stress to my upper body lifts makes sense.
Following Nick's and Ray's discussion, I've reset once after stalling on bench and press with little resulting progress, despite gaining bodyweight. Resetting again seems unproductive; I feel recovered every session, yet am unable to complete sets, especially on the bench. I am also
excited to train those lifts twice a week rather than alternating, so I see no issues here in adding additional stress. Hopefully, this analysis isn't foolish.
Broadly speaking, I won't deviate from the LP and will keep driving all my lifts linearly using the tricks of 3x3 and novice taper in PPST3. Thank you for your input, guys.