44 AMP - There's no point in quoting your whole post, but I do agree.
And... I have nearly gotten myself into trouble by wearing "silent" clothing.
I have always been big on being as silent as possible. But, the last 5-7 years have actually had me intentionally making a little bit of noise, here and there.
In 2009, I spooked a bull elk at less than 10 feet during a light rain (in the middle of a week or torrential down-pour). I could tell it was a bull, and that's the tag I was carrying, but I had no shot and had to let the "freight train" keep blasting through the trees.
Not a minute later, I was creeping down the same old logging road, and almost stepped on a doe mule deer that was sleeping next to a new-growth pine (~4') before she spooked (never saw her, at all).
She scared me so much, so deeply, and so properly, that I almost let a round fly into her fecal factory, simply out of instinct.
After that, I started making at least a little noise, now and then.
At least in my neck of the woods... Sometimes, a little bit of spook is necessary to see the quarry, or to see that it's not the quarry.
...But I do still like to keep safeties as quiet as possible if the situation demands it.