Well I don't think it's a question of what's proper, just what works best. With the weights your at you definitely don't need 10 sets. More like 5 would work. The acclimation sets really make a big difference. I understand what you're getting at but if you take into account that the starting weight should be lower...using the bench example like you did I would try something like this:

120x8
120x6
150x4
180x2
215x1

Now that would be me. I am minimalist and also I don't like to do more than 8 reps for a warmup. If you were benching in the 400 range it could be more. But the above example is a pretty good starting point and shouldn't take anything out of you. I guarantee it's better than what you did before but of couse you need to experiment to see what works best. This kind of warmup is actually more important when you're doing 5x5 same weight than ramping up like you were doing before since then those ramp up set were really a warmup in themselves. For that I actually do less warmup. But the warmup sticky was just meant as a sort of guideline I didn't mean to say I though you should follow everything verbatim. (Like me on the "only 8 reps thing).

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.