FWIW, I personally don't agree with BLW. DC will eat stuff that they are not digestively equipped for, and it's up to us to monitor and help in all areas.
I also didn't get on too well with DS being in my room, among other things.
DS was on such a ridiculously restricted seasonal diet at one point, due to availability of appropriate foods where we were that there was a week or so that he pretty much survived on mango. Morning, noon and night. Nothing else that was appropriate for a child of his age was in season.
Before that, when first weaning he had issues with carrot, tomatoes can be tricky and later I had to be careful with banana, and not give it after lunch. DS would be writhing in agony otherwise. He loved bananas, was one of his first words, but I had to watch his intake. This is why I struggle with letting an infant lead that process.
In spite of his near metamorphosis into a Mango, DS went on to eat anything and everything, the stronger the flavour the better. I say that if you put salt and pepper on a chair, he'd have a go!
Other DC that I know that have followed a Staged pureed and then mashed food diet have ishoos with foods, massive ones too.
Eating is such a strange arena and one that is seemingly impossible to predict. Kids eat how they eat.
DS is now at school, but I'm now listening to BIL father to DN (18m) make wide sweeping comments about decisions I make. Make statements that in a year or 2 they will not uphold, and recently said to my family that actually, I need to give BIL a few patronising 
faces, cos he thinks he knows better, when he knows only as much as I did when DS was 18m.
I do recall making some frankly idiotic comments back then, and perhaps OP when the time passes you will be able to laugh about it.