I agree.
The thing with science is that it does not prove anything, it provides evidence toward a claim - hence why stating things as factual can easily make you look like an idiot when you provide just ONE study showing the opposite. Then there are those who take one study that mentions meal timing to be irrelevant and then apply that to EVERYONE and to all situations. No, it doesn't work like that. I can show you a hundred people who eat regularly and time - to some degree- their food intake and look amazing and 100 who don't and look like ****.
At the end of the day, you have to do what best fits your schedule and other lifestyle factors. The primary reasons why anyone gets far in this game is consistency and adherence to a plan. Not because they down leucine every 30 seconds.
I am going WAAAY off topic in a way here, but I agree with this totally and it reminds me of something I've learned as I've "grown up". When I was younger I thought that in order to become good at something you had to do dramatic things and invest a TON of time into those activities. I used to play the guitar and I felt that if I ever wanted to be great, I had to spend HOURS EVERY DAY and do crazy things. If I wanted to be great at basketball, I had to practice all day, etc.
As I've grown older, I have realized that the friends I have that have become good at these things are not the ones who did the craziest things. They just did the right things, were honest with themselves, and did them consistently enough to constantly improve. I know some world class musicians who will tell you that they can take a novice, and if that person is willing to practice for just 20 minutes a day - but they practice the right skills - they will be amazing in less than 2 years.
I have a friend who's father was a great basketball college basketball player. I used to practice all sorts of crazy things while he was practicing layups and free throws. He'd say, how often do you really use that other stuff? Get good at what you use.
I think with exercise it is this same way - sometimes people want to make crazy changes, or go over the top. They don't realize that they could make a small change that is SO EASY that they can't help but be consistent and it will have a huge impact over time. This is why many people have trouble losing weight. They think, in order to lose weight I have to change, which means I have to change 100%. They don't realize that they may be eating 300 calories over maintenance and simply reducing by 500 calories and doing that for a year will have a dramatic effect.
If these people eat 2 meals/day they often hear they should eat 6 smaller meals and try to implement something that doesn't fit their personality/lifestyle and then they are swimming up stream and fail. They could eat those same 2 meals in an IF type setup and make minor changes to portion size and it wouldn't LOOK much different than what they are already doing but over 2-3 months they would get results and feel like they didn't hardly change anything.
This is WAY off topic and I apologize for this semi-rant - but I see MPS making a huge difference maybe once you are in the top 1%, but is it really going to get you to your goals? I'm not sold.