Never question traditional methods!
If you start questioning traditional methods, the whole of aviation as we know it will fall apart. Instructors will resign en-masse, flying schools will go out of business, the CAA will have to make its entire GA department redundant (they do have awfully generous final salary pensions though), aeroplanes will fall out of the sky. Navigation will be impossible, too.
You will be very lonely.
Just make sure nobody sees the GPS that you carry in your bag
Even though I know it is only a backup