And that is definitively a wrong statement as well as old.
https://community.acescentral.com/t/why-grading-in-log-instead-of-linear/2228/7
http://help.autodesk.com/view/FLAME/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-F864483A-EF62-444D-B82E-842C31BA70F5
Operations that work best in linear
-white balance/exposure
-blur
-sometimes resizing
Operations that work best in log or gamma
-many tone manipulation operations
-unsharp mask
-grain and noise operations
-sometimes resizing
Modern colour correcter tend to develop into the direction that each operator is operating in the space appropriate for its design goals.