Holley Power Valve Experimentation

Could be anything. It's not the application, but how you tune. If you tune for a power valve at cruise vacuum reading, you can easily need a power valve beyond 10.5. What Holley has preached for years about power valve selection is WRONG and they've just now started admitting that. Their formula for idle vacuum divided by 2 is safe for them and easy for those who don't do a lot of precise tuning.
So it is ... the application for a greater than 10.5 would be a street driver with high cruise vacuum.

What makes the Holley formula 'safe' for them?