All fantastic answers, very insightful everyone! 🙏
The hard and fast rule that I operate on is that you likely always want to apply your transforms when dealing with modifiers, or at least certain transforms (you may not want to apply the location, depending on the modifier and the operation). The biggest reason is that they generally operate on the assumption your object is at default transforms. Any deviation and you’ll start to create some issues with how the mesh is being interpreted, like everyone has been mentioning. 🙂
