"Maybe I'm cranky these days, KW, but I find myself reacting emotionally against posts which try to assert what "everyone" does..." 

LOL. I think that sometimes the evangelists for a new technology are their own worst enemies in that regard.

It may not exactly be early days at this point by any means but IIRC, Birn in *Digital Lighting and Rendering 2nd Ed. 2006 *didn't even mention linear and only covered levels correction in Photoshop. I think that Vue only got the linear option in the last version or two and I found the following quote in a post at CGSociety from one year ago.

"Don't worry about not being taught linear workflow! Half the professionals in the industry don't know what it is or use it properly! Well, maybe that's a bit harsh but it's only really come to the forefront of peoples' minds in the last few years."

It's going to take some time for content creators to catch up and until then, things are going to be more compled than ideal I would guess.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken