I can definitely understand the garden and gardening being a cherished protected space. Everyone's vision of that is going to differ yet we can all be successful, and I think that's one of the most magical things about it!

One of my pet peeves is when people try to shoehorn everything into a one size fits all, my way or it's wrong mentality. I'm not that way and gardening certainly doesn't have to be that way whether it's soil, hydroponic, aeroponic, etc etc.

The zucchini I'm growing is being done with my own homebrew methodology simply because I know it works for me and my life. I happen to like harvesting zucchini every 2-3 days, so in this case I've used a much smaller than "normal" reservoir that keeps me to that schedule. It keeps me motivated to keep the plants harvested and the tanks topped up at regular intervals without feeling like a chore. Other times I put them in huge over sized reservoirs, it just depends on what my vision for the space and the plants is at any given time. This time it happens to be "kratky" with a personal twist.

The right way is whatever works for you.