I'm certainly okay with fudging a rule, then revisiting book to confirm the intended rule, then discussing it with my group. And then discussing if we like the fudge better and want to use that moving forward, or not.

This is also why, for me, TTRPGs exercise a different brain "muscle" than board games or miniatures. With board and minis, the exercise is finding how to use the rules to maximize output. For TTRPG, it's using the expected output to maximize the rules.