Lol, did you read the tech, or just take the word of some control freak whack jobs?

Clearly the culture created by the heirarchy involved in managing large groups of people to fleece them of every dollar possible has corrupted the natures of those involved, and resulted in a perverted application of the tech.
That doesn't impact on the validity of the data, only its application.

I've read the books.
Over 20 years of searching has not invalidated the tech, for me.

You got force fed the tech by whack jobs intent on mind controlling a slave, hardly a balanced introduction to the tech.

IF you take the time to evaluate the data without a control freak whack job screaming at you, you may find the truths within it.
Or not.
You gotta decide for you.

For me, it helped organize my thoughts.
It gave a framework for evaluating truth and motivations.
I'm pretty good at predicting human behavior.
Before i took the time to read the books, i was clueless.

Much of the data is reliable, the folks, not so much.
I'm glad you escaped, that camp sounds like a terrible prison to be in.
But, so too is the prison of erroneous data a kaleidoscope of hit and miss.
Maybe your solution is optimal, maybe it is not, depends on the validity of the input data.