Well I guess I'll focus on what seems to be our most fundamental disagreement, my claim that getting value from studying rationality usually involves getting yourself to be closer to an ideal utility maximizer (not necessarily all the way there).
Reading the Allais Paradox post can make a reader notice their contradictory preferences, and reflect on it, and subsequently be a little less contradictory, to their benefit. That seems like a good representative example of what studying rationality looks like and how it adds value.
to their benefit
You assert this as if it were an axiom. It doesn't look like one to me. Show me the benefit.
And I still don't understand why would I want to become an ideal utility maximizer.
If there's such a small chance of your vote making a difference in the election, you should be comfortable voting for trump.