It’s more important to focus on what works instead of what’s optimal. 
There are a million and one studies that we can look to that will tell us what’s optimal in terms of fat loss. However, what’s optimal doesn’t always work for you. 

Figuring out what gets you results is highly individual and comes with a lot of trial and error (maybe this is better said as learning instead of error, so trial and learning). 
I know for me the most success I’ve had with fat loss comes when I’m using some variation of intermittent fasting. For me that means I basically skip breakfast and eat my first meal of the day around 10:30-11:00 am. 
There is no magic in this approach it is simply the easiest way for me to restrict calories enough to shed body fat. I’ve found the best success when I implement this technique. 
Now would I encourage others to try this? Yes, try it and see if it works for you. If it does and it’s fairly easy to maintain that’s great, but if it doesn’t that’s ok too. If it doesn’t work, you could abandon that technique and try another to see if that is a better fit. 
There are many people that would probably like to tell me how this approach is not optimal and that I’m sacrificing gains. And that may be true, but other approaches have not gotten me the results that I seek. 
So in the end I use this technique when I’m looking to reduce body fat knowing that it works for me, even though it might be less than optimal. At the end of the day it gets me the results I want and that’s how a program should be measured.