If you want to mud-down a $700 jacket that’s your prerogative.
I can attest that the trend of mudding layouts is a bunch of nonsense. I bought into it in the early 2000’s and still have a pwr hunter, finisher and x-lander mudded because that’s what Fred Zink said to do. In the last 10yrs I’ve probably been in the field w/ 30-50 blinds that haven’t been mudded and have seen zero noticeable difference. Several have been “put together” that morning and set up. Literally thousands of geese have died in those hunts, not one we didn’t kill could I say was because a blind wasn’t mudded, bad hide sure but mud vs not mudded makes no difference