"Neil: you must have missed the part where TEP told us all that regardless of our own particular levels of reading comprehension skills, our own interpretations are utterly irrelevent!
Indeed they are. The R&A/USGA Rules of Golf Committees are the ultimate writers and interpreters of the Rules of Golf, and not you or Neil. It appears, however, that Neil is a bit more in tune with the way the R&A and USGA interpreters interpret this Rule.
"John, you've played with me, so no you know...hit it, find it, hit it, find it...hook it, pull it, shove it, blade it, chunk it, whatever...but keep fricking moving...mark it if it's in someone's way on the green..,if not, leave it, putt it, putt it, putt it...
on to the next..."
I have no problem at all playing with people who play like that but I do if they try to make everyone else play the same way they do.