We all have to pass through doubt. The trick is to keep going once you're in it.

My advice to favor minimal matching is pragmatic. I've seen a lot more people get themselves into trouble using greedy matching than with non-greedy matching (when forming the part of the regex intended to skip over stuff that's not interesting). Since one way through doubt is to try a few experiments, the odds favor going minimal. This also plays the odds that you experiment succeeds on a small number of tests cases, but fails in the wild.