To quote from one photographic innovator in Popular Photography: "You have to learn the rules, before you earn the right to break them."
Rather humourous, in my view, when I see just a mildly interesting photo, or one that many would throw out, with the photographer proudly proclaming: "Screw the rules!."
My point is that I have not seen a great, or even a very good photo here where several rules of either technique or composition were ignored.
Many problems can be solved at the camera level when you are taking the photo or in the post processing. Not all, but that doesn't mean being too lazy to make the effort.
Ronnoco