After reading everyone's posts, my short answer is that I support option 1; I believe consideration of technology is an intrinsic part of model credibility and doesn't warrant separate consideration.

I, too, largely agree with what has been presented above. It is very difficult to stay on task of developing ten “simple” rules since so much of M&S credible practice is “devil in the details”. If we don’t have to keep it too simple, I’d like to advocate for assuming nothing with the thought that in...