I have no use for the theory. That's to say applying it means to learn it and that means less free time to play. Some will argue that correlating the two would produce better results but that's assuming much about the musicality of the person.
A person of an expansive musical capacity will express it so much better as a self-taught minimalist with a respectable skills set than a highly competent theorist who possesses little capacity for making music, much less expressing it. Both might have similar desires but the point is theory without the inner musicality is pretty much table talk. Sight reading chops, in the same vein, produces a musician who might lack all manner of passion. When the camera pans the orchestra you can pick out the passionate. All others look like table dressing.
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