And because YS says something, it is now absolutely true, right? After all, everything ever published by a game developer is perfectly accurate, so there are no such things as the game mechanics not supporting intent.
If compels didn't require you to pay to refuse them, then yes, I would agree. As it is, it seems the devs look at the the same way most here do - accepting a compel balances out, so it's cost-neutral, but they forgot to account for the fact that if you end up refusing a compel, you would be better off if the compel had never come up. The only way this wouldn't be true is if refusing compels were free, or if they actually gave you a benefit above and beyond the free fate point.