Oh my god I don't know why I never made that connection until now. That is exactly what it feels like!
Because too much depends on randomness and accidental sources of randomness and in it there are whole pockets of multidimensional stability, just until you cross some invisible border you couldn’t even comprehend. This is a natural religion fuel.
So when you read any turorial, guide, best practice, etc, and there is not a hard proof of hours of thorough testing behind every claim, you may freely consider most claims religious, because they are.