!!? Well, I use it often, and it works often. (Absent
ABOK now, I don’t know if the cited knot is one that
essentially makes an adjustable eye knot, or is purely
hitch to rigid or flexible object.) I frequently tie it in
small cords, binding this or that to a backpack for
transport 'a velo. I even use it in lubricated polyester
webbing, and here it’s certainly a YMMV sort of thing,
where one considers needed security vis-a-vis forces;
it might need some help.
One can finish the knot with a slip-knot stopper (not
trusting that finishing half-hitch to hold); one can add
an additional turn, or even guard the knot with a
round-turn nipping loop taking the main load.
To you naysayers, what do you (try to) use it for that
it fails, and with what do you replace it?
As for my worst knots, there are probably many candy dates
among the innumerable new things I keep fiddling!