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Mark,
I don't know that there's really any item of disagreement. It's just an exercise. Not everyone will try it, not all who do try it will benefit from it. Something else will work for them.
I first picked up a guitar nearly 40 years ago and to this day I still warm up with a series of silent fretboard exercises that stretch out and limber up the hand, so that when I go to the music and read, say, D sharp, I "remember" from those "tracing" exercises what it feels like to extend the correct finger to the correct string and fret. That's all. It's no big deal. The exercises aren't music, and aren't supposed to be.
For the discipline, I also spent too much time in a dojo, and in retrospect I think all those endless hours of kata were a "tracing" exercise as well. People kept punching and kicking me, though, so I transferred to gentler arts.
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