@sharkbait13 The resting of the bar on the traps is not really the core of the exercise. But i get if it feels bad. You just have to find the sweetspot where it lies comftably.
@sharkbait13 “Toxicly or stupidly dogmatic” is what you refered the tried and true method of large compound lifts to be.
You say that there is other methods, but really there isnt. Its the basic movements of the human body.