They totally matter. Obviously.
The thing about the interzones, everything is already here. When I hear about something new and interesting the interzones make it easy to search out all the info and usually in a heartbeat.
When I heard about fuses that is what I did. Within an hour I had learned so much it was a no-brainer to get some and try. Never once came on here asking anyone anything about it. Why? All those questions have already been answered.
Like, adg101 is unsure if glass can "sustain the process" of cryo. But there are countless on-line sources that make it clear you can cryo just about anything. I had tubes and all my wire and even a whole CDP cryo'd. Cryo is baby steps compared to the stuff Ted is doing with his fuses. Teflon tape is stone age. This is like 30 years ago putting the CDP on a phone book. This is like, "I wonder if my speakers would sound better pointed towards me?"
Imagine if, instead of asking what-if to whatever few people happen to be on one little forum at one point in time, imagine if they used their keyboard instead to look and find the answers from everyone across all time. Then they could go and do, and in the process figure out their own way of doing it even a little bit better, and come back and tell us all about that.
Imagine that.