>>1679932This is an interesting take and similiar to how they taught it really.
The rear wheel was very bad.
They got a young guy to show me, and he taught true for roundness first, then for side to side wobble. I got it quite good but not perfect, and I found multiple spokes on the side with the worst wobble ended up excessively loose.
Then the shop owner who is very good at it stepped in and tried to finish the wheel and showed me how he was doing it. It was as you say, all variables at once. Basically, by magic. I think there is an orthodox process which is not unhelpful to learn and understand but ultimately you need to do it with instinct and experience and many things in mind at once. This is what i'd always assumed by not bothering to learn and it confirmed it. Shit is hard. But I actually really liked doing it. I've basically learnt everything else via the internet but it was great to have a bit of hands on teaching for it.