Like, I get comments from people telling me it's weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.
I don't normally peel my potatoes, but when I do, I use the peeler like I'm whittling a piece of wood.
But peeling oranges...I do the same thing you try to do with potatoes: I try to get the peel off in one single long spiraling piece.
I'm in your camp on all 3 points