it can look like BLW is somehow 'lacking' in the parental input, you know that desire to feed our children, to nourish them, like it is love. Then with more information or with experience you discover it is every bit as loving and bonding as spoon feeding (or IMHO more so) - it is joyous!
Totally agree with this. A Burmese friend related to us how he was telling his parents about watching F (then around 8 months) eat, and they were absolutely horrified - "that poor child, don't her parents love her, they don't even feed her!!!" And he laughed and laughed and said they wouldn't ask that if they could see how absolutely delighted she was with herself, and with us, and with her food, he had never seen another child so happy with her parents at mealtime.
I always thought I would give F purees as I'd never heard of anyone doing anything else - I had even already started preparing lovely home-made purees and freezing them - then when she was just short of 6 months old I happened to read an article about BLW and it just made SO much sense to me, I couldn't imagine why I hadn't thought of it myself

So all of my cubes of frozen fruit were made into sorbet.
FWIW, my LO's pincer grip went from non-existent to proficient after about 3 weeks of BLW. I totally credit it with huge developments in her fine-motor skills at that age.