No-Eliminate D1: A bad move?

[Gamma Emerald]

I think I might've done worse wrt necrobumping towards when I first started playing

as for my own experience here vs. on other sites (by which I mean my homesite) here setups are typically odd numbers of players, or at least at a quantity that emphasizes voting someone out D1 to maintain stability of town's winrates rather than giving scum the n1 kill and putting it on evens, which significantly worsens town's chances. On my homesite, though, there are a number of factors that tend to result in a no exe day 1. People tend to try to not push others towards execution unless there's a substantial amount of evidence against them, which is really gonna happen on D1. In addition the playerbase kinda trends towards a geriatric style where players will post a little bit each day but not really devote a ton of time to the game. A side note to that is there aren't a lot of games that are run there, so taking someone out early is a big deal. The final nail in the coffin is the fact the site meta prefers nightplay over dayplay a good amount of the time, due to every setup except I think one having all power roles. Here we have a good amount of non-PR intensive or vanilla/vanilla-esque setups, which put a focus on dayplay instead, and we tend to vote more freely in order to generate a good amount of things to sort D1. We also have a lot of games so if you get killed early you can just join another one.
So honestly I think it's not actually a de facto bad move as OP tries to suggest. Instead it's a situation affected by cultural influence.