I have been pondering this for awhile. If you have to change something so much to make it work for you, then are you really following the book?

Take, for example, making a pavlova. You need to have the oven on and need eggs. But what if after you turn the oven on and get out the eggs, you decide that rather than separating the eggs you will use whole ones. Instead of sugar, you use mince, then put it in the oven. You end up with a meatloaf. Now a meatloaf is nothing like a pav, but they do both use ovens and eggs.

That is how I see many of the posts that are praising SOS, there is so little of the original recipe left to be promoting.