OpenBass is not trying to be a complete bass education. It focuses on a set of fundamentals that can be explained clearly, explored systematically, committed to memory, and tested. Other parts of playing are too personal, too stylistic, or already better served elsewhere.
1. Technique
Technique is individual. Bodies, instruments, musical goals, and physical histories differ. A fingering or hand position that works beautifully for one player may be uncomfortable or limiting for another.
Two principles are broadly useful: stay relaxed, and make your movements as efficient as you can. Small movements are usually better. Beyond that, avoid dogma, especially about fingerings.
Often the answer is not to learn the one correct way. It is to learn every useful way.
Different fingerings, positions, and articulations solve different musical problems. Build options, notice tension, and work with a good teacher when you need individual help.
2. Stylistic development and application
OpenBass teaches foundations. It cannot develop your artistic identity for you. The material here may expand what you can hear and make available more choices on the instrument, but deciding what to say is your responsibility.
Style comes from listening, transcribing, imitating, playing with people, learning repertoire, taking risks, and developing taste. Use these foundations to make music, not as a substitute for making music.
3. Reading
Reading is an important musical skill, but there are already many strong methods and resources devoted to it. OpenBass may publish a guide to reading in the future. For now, the curriculum assumes you can read basic rhythm and pitch notation.
If you cannot yet do that, treat reading as a prerequisite rather than a reason to wait. Learn it alongside the early OpenBass material, then return when the notation becomes usable rather than obstructive.
A narrower promise
These boundaries make OpenBass more useful. The site can concentrate on time and rhythm, fretboard knowledge, harmony, and ear training, then connect those areas through exercises and tests. It will not promise to make you an artist. It will help make the foundations dependable enough for you to develop one.