Ok, I think we’re not really disagreeing, we’re just fighting about language.

Yes if you follow the directions and pay close attention then you won’t end up with burnt popcorn.

But a lot of the time the directions specifically say not to use the popcorn button, when you really should, so in that case following the directions will give you what you want but there is a much better way.
When you said to actually follow the instructions, I thought you were more or less blanket agreeing with that part of the instructions too.

So I think we were talking past eachother for a bit there.