I think ADA, if practiced in a way that could be useful for LD, can be very useful. The useful ADA I think involves reducing or eliminating doing things on autopilot while one's thoughts are elsewhere, which is very useful because if one's habit is to do stuff on autopilot in waking life then one is likely to do stuff on autopilot while dreaming as well, increasing one's questioning of reality, paying more attention in general, increasing one's meta awareness. I suspect though that one can indeed increase awareness in a useless way which would be if one got information overload from paying attention to too many details, but doing it as blindly paying attention without questioning. However, I would say that the fault there would be that someone is doing ADA wrong, not that ADA is wrong.