Vince, a spiritual truth I learned from computer programming is: There's More Than One Way To Do It. Larry Wall even built this principle into his language, Perl. But then he makes no secret of his spirituality either.
One teacher calls this particular dichotomy "goal-oriented vs. source-oriented" practice.
Being dogmatic about this way or that way is, deep down, doubt, attachment to rites and rituals, self-view, in short, the stuff of the first few fetters.
Besides, who knows if we won't hit the point where we'll just need to recline in the suchness, or whatever it will be.

Cheers,
Florian