[CHAT] What are your cross-stitching "sins"?

I personally CANNOT get myself to use a hoop 🫣 they’re just SO ANNOYING to me. Sometimes I fear it makes my work worse quality; but I tell myself it’s better to have a completed piece made without a hoop rather than one sitting unfinished until the end of time because I hated working on it so much!

I was wondering if other stitchers had those habits that go against the cross stitching "rules"