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I think that they have no interest to spend time playing low stakes oO but i believe you. The same time i never meet overskilled players in such tournaments.
As for me, you always have to play yourself to understand why it works and how it works. When you look videos you see what they do, but don`t understand why.
May be i mistake, but i think that you need play by yourself to level up.No, you are absolutely right, it goes without saying that practice is very important. What I meant was that you don't necessarily need to play with the best of the best to learn from them, you can watch how they play on YouTube. But, of course, as in any other field, theoretical knowledge is nothing without practice.
I personally think that playing in free-to-enter tournaments is bad for your knowledge of the game, but starting from a $1 buy-in you can get a good initial practice, and then move to a $10 buy-in, which is actually better.
Yes, it is so. I tried free-to-enter, free-rolls tournaments, even won several times, but i understood fast enough that i see mostly newbies that try to bluff without strategy or playing as it was written in the book "How to win poker in 3 days". In $1 buy-in i saw not so many "allin-ers" but the quality of players was really low. I`m not serious player but it was boring even for me. Now i play with $5-10 buy-in and it is about my level. But i feel that i need increase it to level up my skills and spend much more time playing.