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I asked myself this very question many times as I have followed Tony P to guitar fluency: “how important is it to spend time on techniques I will never again use? I don’t want to end up hating to practice just because we’re doing an “ugly” (to me) song” I arrived at a comfortable conclusion. I will attempt the technique. I may not have a need for it now. The reason I do it as presented is so I don’t have to think about what happens next. I found that as I get better (over time) at a technique I find a place to use it. That is an incredible lightbulb moment when that happens. It provides me the “stick to it” motivation when I don’t have context for new technique. It is easier for me as time goes on to separate the song from the building blocks of the song, so much so all the songs become one song with variations that distinguish one from another.