What do you think "my flavor of EP" means other than "the EP that I have encountered and am talking about"?

Of course, if you don't try to expose yourself to other flavors, you're only going to taste that one.

You quoted from an article that was highly hostile to EP. If you want to know what EP advocates believe about EP, this is decent (and not behind a paywall, which is a really serious problem for EP and psychology in general): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00910/full

It again does not match your characterization.

Does it mean it's without problems? No. But it doesn't match your characterization.