Sure, for some definition of "important".
When I coached volleyball, we encouraged kids to find their power first, and then learn control later (for instance, with a jump serve). There's a reasonable argument to be made that overall progress is faster if you find your physical limits and then dial back.
I don't know that this translates exactly to the disc golf drive, but I see similarities. Certainly if your definition of "important" is to get a better score right now, then sure, accuracy > power. But if "important" means maximizing your potential, then I'm not so sure.
My fear with advocating accuracy over power is that I could easily see someone adopting a form that is accurate but caps them at 60% of their true potential power. I know from personal experience that improving power also improves accuracy, but I'm less sure that you can keep adding power into an accurate but fundamentally flawed form.
I guess I'm saying: there's many ways to think about this.
The reason to advocate accuracy over power is pretty simple.
If you're focusing on being accurate, you're more focused on a swing vs a throw.
Swing creates leverage, leverage creates power.
If your goal is "moar power" then your brain will tell your muscles to go into over drive. Which then turns into muscling and poor accuracy and a sore shoulder.
The key is to trick yourself into learning that more leverage = more power = more distance. But trying to throw the disc as hard as you can will not result the same and in turn create really bad habbits.
With lets say a volley ball serve, it's not as terribly complicated as a full power backhand with the massive amount of things going on at once.
However, its not simple, but you can push the boundaries because it's .. oh jeez, i'm making a mess of this.
When we look at a lot of athletic movements, our bodies will naturally do them to a certain extent.
Because to perform that movement, we've had good language for one to direct the actions. Disc golf is full of bad language that will sub consciously direct your body to do all the wrong things. Such as "throw."
Anyone can "throw." we can look at this in baseball. Just take your arm and throw it. But you will limit your distance and possibly hurt yourself when you try and just use your arm to throw really far trying to muscle it.
When you cross this idea into disc golf and say "pull" and "throw" your brain says "take disc and use arm to throw hard" which is exactly what you dont want to be doing. And being such a complex motion, you can easily overstrain muscles that are not used for many other tasks.
When you teach somebody that its a swing and they swing with their body, they can drive with their body instead of their arm.
But if we look at baseball and golf for swings, we are using 2 arms, which FORCES you to be more in harmony when you swing. But the motions are rooted in a lot of similar motions, but we are not doing it with 1 arm, but all 3 actions are trying to generate leverage into something.
So, trying to find your power, should realistically be "learning to use your body." vs trying to "yeet" a frisbee.
Power and distance comes from the core, but its learning to start with that core throw, vs trying to yeet the disc and then trying to eliminate all that bad muscle memory when you try and clean up the swing and use your body. And essentially what you'll do is keep forcing yourself out of time when you get into a bit of "secret sauce" stuff where you will want to put a little more on it, and that form you used 2 or 3 years ago will just sneak in and you either hurt yourself or throw like crap.
Ask me how I know. hahaha
I will say if your'e starting with a bit better form overall vs a full muscle swing.
Adding some muscles into it to try and find your wall is a different subject.
But generally its people muscling with their arm and doing all the wrong things vs just trying to accurately smooth the disc down the fairway.
