The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
There's nothing wrong with setting your own code and fishing by it. It's really one of the nice things about fly fishing. But there is something wrong with expecting everyone else to follow suit.
Some of the same folks who decry any dry fly or nymph that can't be tied in five minutes with one hand will assail an egg pattern as a "junk" fly. They extoll impressionism and simplicity, yet when a fly (like a Glo Bug) presents those qualities in spades, it is somehow unworthy.