This has got changed in the literature over time. If you followed the link to Walt Berger's letter, you'll note it took some time and customer feedback for him to work out that the VLDs shouldn't be too near the lands. Midway apparently hasn't updated that.
Touching the lands is fine, pressure-wise, if you work your load up for that. There are some bullets that seem to prefer it. Lead bullets in self-loading handguns often shoot more accurately and foul less if loaded that way. Middleton Tompkins uses soft-seating. This is where the neck is sized so the bullet has just a little neck friction and you can still move it with your fingers. The bullet is seated way out, and seating is completed by contact with the throat when he closes the bolt. He loads for himself and his whole family of national and international match winners, so, obviously that's done well for them. The main drawback is that if a cease-fire is called when a round is chambered, you have to go muzzle up and open the bolt slowly, because the bullet will stick in the lands and you will dump powder into your action if you try to extract the round horizontally. A cleaning rod then has to be used to push the bullet out before loading and shooting resumes.
A lot of benchrest shooters also used to touch the lands, but most found it was not as accurate as seating some distance back. Mind you, benchrest makes a higher accuracy demand than long range position shooting does.
In The Precision Shooting Reloading Guide, one of the benchrest authors described how he'd one day turned the micrometer head on his seating die the wrong way and wound up with bullets 0.050" off the lands, when he'd intended to get 0.020" off the lands. He'd loaded 50 rounds before he noticed. He debated trying to fix them or just shooting them in practice, and decided on the latter. To his surprise, they shot better than anything he'd ever loaded for that gun before.
Isn't it interesting that people as involved with precision loads as a benchrest shooter or a match bullet maker wouldn't have done the early testing needed to learn what seating depths worked best for them, and have to find it out from accidents or from customer feedback that puts them on the right testing track? I think we all get caught up in conventional wisdom from time to time, and certain seating distances off the lands have have some dogmatic adherents. I've heard people say it's "always best to be 0.005" off, or 0.010" off, or 0.015" off, or 0.020" off, or 0.030" off, or . . ." You get the idea. Keep an open mind. Try things.
remember I couldnt hit it?