Yes and no really. Being guided by medical evidence is a good idea of course; but individual medics are just people, and I'm sorry to say that in the field of maternal care there is a lot of traditionalism, a lack of staying up to date with current evidence, a risk aversion that fails to account for the specificities of the individual woman/pregnancy, and culture plays a huge (unwonted) part in the advice you receive and the treatment you get.
Just trustingly doing as you're told is a bad shout in my view because a lot of the time you are seen as "expectant mother #444456, seen one you've seen them all", and if you do not make it very clear you are informed and ready to advocate for yourself a lot of staff will gently bully you into thinking you don't have a say or a right to one in terms of what happens to you during pregnancy, labour or birth.
With the best intentions of course - they don't want anything bad to happen to you or your baby.
But 'bad', to them, means something that will show up on an incident report. Not birth trauma, not PND, not failure to bond, not breastfeeding failure, not a whole bunch of other things that can wreck your life and your experience of parenthood because you weren't listened to and treated as an individual having an individual experience that falls into, but doesn't necessarily follow, the population-level statistics.
For evidence of this you only have to look at the variation in rates of c-section from country to country, and from trust to trust. The section rate in Cyprus is not nearly 60% (outnumbering vaginal births) because women in Cyprus are built different to women in the Nordic countries, where rates are below 20%; there will be culture and politics and pressures at play that have made this the case, and you can be pretty damn sure that not every woman in that 60% needed it, and of the ones who had it but didn't need it that they all wanted it. Likewise there might be women in the 80% of vaginal births in the Nordic countries who would have preferred and/or benefitted from a section, who were denied it or persuaded out of it because of prevailing culture.
The only person who is all that interested in your specific needs and risks and weighing them up is you; so you need to be very well informed, so that when a midwife or doctor attempts to jam you and your baby and body down the path of least resistance, you are armed to make the case that while this may be the best for the majority of people, it may not be for YOU because of XYZ, and that you would like to discuss the possibility of [other option]. It doesn't make you popular that's for sure; even less popular when you point out something you have been told is actually factually incorrect, which happens more often than give one any kind of confidence.
But I think it's pretty essential to having a non-traumatic experience in which you either feel ignored and like a piece of meat, or abnegate yourself entirely because only the baby matters. No. The mother is the patient. She matters. And it goes without saying in the vast majority of cases, she cares about the baby's wellbeing a damn sight more than even the medical professionals and will not be making choices selfishly.