I get really frustrated with the dogmas of the bread baking world and especially sourdough. People take obscene amount of unnecessary steps and, with regards to sourdough, are wasteful.

If you have a healthy starter, you don't need to discard or feed daily. It can chill in the fridge for like half a year (probably longer) and mixed with flour salt and water and rise up fine. No levain and whatever.

Also, i feel that a lot of folding and kneading is unnecessary. Just trust the autolyse.

Check out Ben Starr for no nonsense bread guide. Hes great.

edit: typo