Your views coincide heavily with mine on this topic.
I would only object that e.g. driving on the same side of the street as everyone else [1] because everyone else drives on that side is not a case of engaging in a practise "simply on the basis that others" engage in the practise, but to avoid catastrophic failure. If the street system's usage factor were on the order of parts per billion, and agents had a preference for not being confined to one side, it would be "okay" [2] to drive as one pleases and simply adjust in the rare case of seeing another user.
[1] assuming I correctly understand this to be a reference to two-way conveyance-transmission systems in which changing chirality is impractical on short notice, and opposite chirality for two coincident conveyances is catastrophic
[2] i.e., non-detrimental to their terminal values
I just downloaded the latest Radiohead album, and I love it.
Thinking back, I started listening to Radiohead years ago when I found out that some of the cool kids in school were into it. With all the hype about the new album, the status/fashion processors in my brain going to ensure that I enjoy listening to it. I would probably fail a double-blind test with a bunch of imitation bands' fake "new Radiohead albums".
But I'm really enjoying listening to the album, and that doesn't seem like a bad or contradictory thing at all, even in light of the statements above. If, hypothetically, I was enjoying it for purely non-fashion reasons, then presumably that enjoyment could also be traced back though a causal chain to facts about brain development, evolutionary psychology, or whatever. But we would have no problem accepting that enjoyment as A Good Thing since explaining enjoyment does not diminish it. And so it seems in this case.