I relate with you, as I live in Italy, and the advice is much more similar to what you say than to the UK/USA direction. I also added rice baby flour in the milk for some feeds at the beginning, even if I stopped because DS always ate well solids, so there is not need. But I know many parents do it.
At 8 mo my DS was having a bottle in the morning and in the afternoon, and DF (we weaned DF at 9 mo). Here, like in Spain I guess, doctors recommend to SUBSTITUTE the milk feeding with solids. So, for example, we had 5 bottles at 6 mo at 8, 12, 16, 19, 23 and at 6 mo we substitute the 12 bottle with solid lunch and at 7 mo the 19 bottle with solid dinner. At 8.5 mo doctor told me to substitute the 16 bottle with yogurt (not every day). The dinner was with cheese, so I suppose it made up for diary intake.
I still don't know if it is a good way of weaning or not, probably if I had to do it again I would keep the milk intake higher, but this is what doctors recommend here and almost everybody weans like this, so I don't think it is "dangerous".
What I did in addition was starting finger foods from 8 mo, as I read it in BW books, and I found that DS learned pretty quickly to eat non puree foods, quicker than other babies here that have been spun-fed until they can't take a spun, as in general is here.