One thing I learned during 35 years in education: No matter how carefully practices are defined by researchers, by the time they reach teachers, they have been transmogrified into something much different.
You can keep your beliefs, but I’ll take empirical observation… especially observation confirmed by others and that accurately predicts other observations.
One thing I learned during 35 years in education: it’s almost impossible to differentiate those who did well in prerequisites from those who did not by looking at current performance.