It is true that anybody who is looking to emulate another should go in 100%. It is smart. I do not advocate being like a vendor since their goals are different than yours, unless you are a vendor.
You should also pay attention to what they are doing and the past and recent successes that they had. It is true that lately Dr. Joshi has been running higher levels of building blocks and he cannot keep all of the different types of acropora that he used to keep - he is pretty honest about this. ...so all of the details matter and if you want to be like him, then buy 3.5x xr30 Radions to replace each MH, raise them up way high, run them at 100% on all channels, keep your N and P higher and just know that not all acropora will make it. You can have a great tank like this, for sure. You have to pay attention to all of the details and not just the ones that support the narrative that you want - we all do this at some level even if unconscious and we don't mean to (human nature). I do not want this because I want to keep those acropora that require different care.
I think that half of the time, people get a false sense of security because some corals can do well for a time before they die... so they thought that what they did was right for a few months when the truth is that they were slowly dying the whole time. Clams are notorious for this. Only significant new growth is a positive positive sign... just keeping stuff alive is something, but not always a great indicator of truly thriving stuff.
I do totally agree with not trying to be like somebody else, but seeking knowledge and using it to find your own path. This can be hard because people rely on message board posts too much and experts and books too little. Take this discussion, for example where people are often misinformed... N and P are technically a nutrient, but they are not fuel or food like most people think where more does more. They are a building block of life where you need just enough, but not too many and more does no good. Fuel comes from sugars from the zoox that the light helps with - more sugars can do more. N and P are only need to built or repair new organic tissue - they are not a nutrient like food/fuel. Think of N and P like bricks at a job site... you only need just enough around to keep the line moving and the workers laying new bricks, which is a slow and steady process. If you have too many bricks laying around, then it gums up the works and makes everything less efficient with import of new materials and export of waste. This metaphor is not 100%, because none are, but you get the point... Every living creature will die with too much N or P, but the level can be really different - the example that I gave before is a good one where my Purple Monster will not thrive as well with N over 1, but other corals do not care at all. Diatoms and dinos will die with higher levels of N or P. Coralline will stop growing as fast. Once you understand this, then what benefit is there of having more than is needed? One benefit could be to kill dinos or diatoms, which I guess can really be good.
Lastly, since we are on the topic of effective N and P management... Most corals prefer to get their N from ammonia and ammonium - this is efficient and easy to access. If they have to use NO3 for nitrogen, then they have to expend extra energy to split up the molecule in the range of 30-50% (forgot where I saw this, but I have seen it a few places) and this is not preferred. All of the people who have always thought that fish food is a superior source to feed coral were right. Dosing N is probably not doing what you think, unless your thought was that it was going to raise a number on a test kit - the corals are still looking for ammonia and ammonium even after you dosed sodium nitrate, or whatever. Combine this with the fact that most po4 that gets dosed in batches just binds to aragonite, then there is little hope that dosing N and P does much at all... and even if it does, it does not do it as well as just feeding fish more. Small steady does of ammonia/ammonium and po4 seem to be the most efficient and best way to feed coral. I am amazed that more people do not dose small amounts of ammonia all day - most people see this as a poison, but it is not any more of a poison than N and P in appropriate levels.
Aminos can be absorbed through the tissue of coral cell walls but also single cell and smooth cell micro organisms. There is some evidence that corals can use this, but little evidence that they can outcompete the bacteria, algae and other waterborne stuff that probably gets to it first. Even if the aminos all get used up before they get to the coral, there is N and P on the backend along with more single cell stuff around for food, so it does probably do something, even if indirect.
/tldr
