couldn't agree more
spice mixes and bases, are all subjective, like most of cooking really. In Scotland we have a dish called Stovies (short for stoved potatoes and rather yummy if I may say) and you have no idea how many different ways you can make them yet you will still here someone say, "you can't make stovies with blah de blah", when others swear it is the only way to make them.