Ilya, you've raised some good points. I do enjoy landscape photography - although I'm dreadful getting out of bed for a sunrise! On my website I have landscape photos in colour and in B&W. I prefer them in colour mostly, because nature and it's colours IMO are spectacular. But... I need to have some form of human element to my landscape work = in the "third person", otherwise it just doesn't work for me.
The reason I backed off from the discussion was my thoughts and ideas tend to go into overdrive, and I simply don't have time to keep responding.
Also, I do find discussion on forums can be frustrating and a bit like wading through porridge, though this is no reflection on anyone else in the least, but to do with confusions that can arise and I think to do with the medium.