You'll never convince the curers though. Thy seem convinced that letting their weed get old improves it. The best tastes and smells come from fresh weed.
I grow herbs like thyme and rosemary for cooking. Fresh undried is best but I still use dried for cooking during the winter when the plants are all yucked up. By spring I'm waiting for the new growth as the old dried herb has lost all of the terpenes/volatile oils that give it the taste and aroma I'm looking for.
Cannabis loses it's character, taste, and smell just like dried herbs do. I think many just cure because they read about it on the internet and think it's something you need to do. Some will go to their grave disagreeing with me but that doesn't change the FACT that terpenes degrade over time and that old weed has lost some of the qualities many people desire. If you have a strain that's piney, fruity, or skunky, those characteristics will just diminish over time.
Those that say it mellows it out with a cure are correct. It's more mellow because the terpenes have degraded.
I prefer the crisp in your face presence of fresh terpenes that haven't degraded.
The longer it sits the worse it gits.
I don't cure and I don't flush. My weed tastes great as soon as it's dry enough to smoke. Some prefer to let their weed get all old and tasteless before smoking by curing it. That's their choice.