I agree as well.

The book will simply tell you some round about increments to add each workout based on exercise. If you were an absolute novice, never having touced a weight you could add ten or even more pounds a session on squat and deadlift and at least 5 pounds a session on bench.

Most people don't come to it as absolute novices and so, as Kane pointed out, different lifts may have different "ages" depending on what you've done in the past. Frankly however, I disagree with the notion of adding as much as you can to the bar each workout just because you can. Because from what I see it becomes something that sacrifices form.

You get guys adding ten or fifteen pounds to their squat each session for a while but what you don't see is them losing their depth and getting higher and higher as they go along or simply becoming a big pile of mush with a bar underneath it. I think it pays to be conservative and add less to the bar than you think you can. I think that the idea of fastest possible progression, the way it is often presented, is not really that great an idea.

And if I remember correctly you are around 50, right? You have some prior experience plus lots of "life" experience. That means you are coming to it with a lot of baggage. Imbalances, ineficientcies. Potential for injury is great, therefore. All the more reason to be conservative. And please nobody take this as me thinking 50 year olds have to treat themselves like crystal and can't keep up with the young guys. I know better than that.

It should be fastest possible progression while maintaining good quality.

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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.