I hear you Greg and acknowledge that you are making legitimate points. I like MILS for my town buildings as it provides a natural curb when used with my brick built roads. I have no problem abandoning MILS for large expanses of grass or fields so long as we are doing something with those spaces (and not just covering flat table tops with flat baseplates). Not doing MILS on outer loop train tracks also makes sense so that we can build up the track beds (which is more realistic) using the PennLUG track standard.
I have no problem with MILS being an aspirational goal rather than an absolute “be all, end all”. We can always find ways to blend MILS and non-MILS (we’ve been doing that since we started). Happy Independence Day to all.