I am not "ripping into" JH because he does not invest like I do.

Let me just repeat part of another comment I made elsewhere yesterday;

"I feel the RoB could do a better job of considering retired investors wish for capital preservation,modest income,and a good nights sleep."

I have no quarrel with JH or dividend investing per se...as a subset of "styles"...esp for investors with a long horizon.
My beef is that the RoB does not tailor its advice to investors at different ages/circumstances/parts of the cycle.
Presumably its advertising dept is interested in folks who are 30-40,working and making/spending lots of $$.
I certainly would not put my 80+ year old mother into a bunch of DRIP's and pipelines,utilities.
And to her credit...based only on her own instinctive risk aversion,she is not.

 Scott Barlow has been calling dividend investing a bad/risky idea for about 6 months now,and there is talk (everywhere) about  a "30 year run in bonds ending".
Then there is Trump.