are we then expected to discard the professional outlook in favour of our own!
I certainly wouldn't assume because something is churned out by pro to an App using a super computer that it's bound to be accurate for where you are.
As is often mentioned in another sub forum the quality of local forecasting seems to have deteroriated since the demise of a local forecaster (e.g in the Vale of York), who knew his area, knew about the effects local topography had, and would produce a forecast
based on the computer version coming out of Bracknell (as it was).
Even if you discard station circles from the PPL/ATPL there's still a need for an individual pilot to be have enough basic met knowledge in his her/head to "decode" what he see's out of the window and act accordingly...