Like everything else "orchid" the "right" answer is likely "it depends". There has been a lot of study on techniques to optimize growth and blooming for commercially-produced Phalaenopsis - it's a huge cash crop. Every factor (light, temperature, fertilizer formulation-concentration-frequency, water, and timing of variations in all of those) is optimized for that monoculture crop, The goal is to get lots of blooming plants to market fast, especially for flower-buying holidays.
For those of us who grow examples of the rest of the 800-900 orchid genera (not counting the human-made ones) under a range of conditions suitable to them and manageable for us, the "rules" that work for those mass-produced Phals likely are not appropriate in that broader "orchid world". It's both "less complicated" in that one can get very good results with less-than-optimum conditions, and "more complicated" in that different orchid types have different needs, often very different at different times of the year, and one's success is likely to improve with understanding of the differences.
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