So, can we safely say that by failing to follow the rules, one can break
any implementation of a technology that involves two or more components?
Whether it is drives on a PC or code on Mac or even, as hard as I find
this to believe, the 3K? I have seen a third party use other name brand
third party software in ways the 'crashed' our 3Ks. Before that, I only
saw one crash when it lost LDEV 1. Since then, I have read and heard
amazing things that could crash the 3K.

As to following the rules, one can say much about the reasonableness and
accessibility of those rules. On a better day, I could say something
witty about aberrant behavior on the part of one's spouse when
unreasonable and unknowable rules were violated...