Set-up is not important, the direction the clubface is pointing at impact is (Updated)

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At the risk of horrifying a lot of golfers with the title. 'Set-up is not important, the direction the clubface is pointing at impact is'. I should rephrase it to this. 'Set-up is only important, if it interferes with the direction the clubface needs to point at impact, or impedes the golfers ability to hit through the ball, on a specific path'. If there was a check list of priorities, categorized by order of importance, that the golfer should run through before hitting, the set-up & squareness of stance, would be low down on that list. De-prioritizing the importance of square set-up, flies in the face of almost every book written on golf, and also questions its validity as a golfing fundamental, but its true.