I do pretty much the same with the cast skillets. They get exposed to hot soapy water, where some like to just scrape them out. I have seen more alchemy on patch and bullet lubes than any other subject except perhaps cleaning solvents.
DP
And one of the common themes often found among all those discussions seems to be that after some get comfortable with what "they do" they sort of disdain other approaches if it's different from theirs, in some cases to the extreme of demeaning to other products or approaches...really pretty silly.
When in reality, there are many, many types of lubes and cleaning techniques that all work...the main differences are the occasional unique steps that may have to be understood and taken with the different choices...even different climates with different temperature & humidity ranges can enter into the effectiveness of different choices and how they're used.
I've noticed a couple times over the years where someone has conducted a back yard experiment, leaving several stips of steel outside in the elements for 2 weeks...having coated each piece of metal with some type of different lube then recorded the results after 2 weeks were up...declaring from that which lube is best.
While I'm sure it might have been an interesting experiment to the experimenter, unfortunately the results have no practial bearing on the reality of how I care for my Flintlocks for example...I clean, dry, lube mine and they live in the controlled temp & humidity conditions of my house...they don't lay on a picnic table in the back yard for 2 weeks