That Ian Knot is how I've been tying my shoe laces for the last couple of years. I've never been able to do the single loop and wraparound, and it feels extreme

That Ian Knot is how I've been tying my shoe laces for the last couple of years. I've never been able to do the single loop and wraparound, and it feels extremely illogical to me, so for all my life I've been doing the bunny ears, until I learned the Ian Knot. It's easy and fast and works very well once you get the hang of it. As for the way of tying knots being relevant: decades ago in my teenage years, after learning the bowline (paalsteek in Dutch) and sheetbend (schootsteek), I discovered that at their heart, they were the same know. And because I struggled with the bowline but mastered the sheetbend, I started using the sheetbend as a bowline, but that didn't work well, because my method didn't account for where the forces are going to pull on. So I still had to learn a proper bowline. On the other hand, there are multiple ways to lay a mastworp/clove hitch, and they're all fine.