Well, since I've read and enjoyed other comments by Finisterre, I don't think this is just a provocative troll post, and I'll bite as well. For me, the two extremes articulated here are equally unsatisfying. I find myself falling somewhere in the middle, along with the vast majority of people who have posted. I don't like the judgmental "true pilgrim vs. tourist" line, nor do I like the "it's your Camino, do it your way" line. Both are arbitrary, IMO. As Finisterre himself recognizes, his line between tourist and pilgrim is "gadgets." Others would say sleeping in beds makes you a tourist, for others using Jacotrans, eating in restaurants or sleeping in hotels is the line between authentic and fraud.
Then on the "it's your camino" side of the spectrum, there are of course lines drawn there as well. If we say it's "your camino," are we saying we endorse any and all behavior by people walking? Of course not. Maybe what we're referring to is that we think it's ok for you to take your gadgets, sleep in a hotel, take a taxi for the last few km when you are tired, have your pack carried, take buses to skip the "boring parts," make reservations, or walk without money and beg for your upkeep. But I think that even the "it's your camino" folks won't all agree on whether those things are all ok. But there are certainly behaviors and habits that have been described on many posts, not involving illegal or dangerous activity but just things most people on this forum agree are unacceptable and would not fit within the bounds of what "it's your camino" gives you license to do. But my point is that for each one of us, that line falls at a different point on the spectrum.
So that takes me to the conclusion that as the camino becomes more and more and more popular, and as the infrastructure expands to make it easy for more and more people to walk who would never have walked when places to eat were few and far between, and when the accommodations were roof and floor in an unheated room, we have to learn to get along with a lot of people with different attitudes and should stop trying to be the Camino Police. And I personally think we should stop with the "it's your camino" rhetoric because I think it unrealistically leads people to expect that no one on the camino makes any judgments about anything.
Just my two cents. Buen camino, Laurie