Clever enlightenment traditions use failsafes. You can get into the path for entirely obtuse reasons, but you'll lose them before the end.
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It seems to me like the main point of things like morality training, or Zen obfuscation is to encourage particular stops along the way.
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You can use technique to go all the way, but the result can be profoundly dangerous to your surroundings if divorced from ethics. cc
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For the individual practitioner, then, the most important question to ask of any tradition is not "does it work?", but "what are my values?"
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