No, not really. It depends on the variety of strictness and so on. I'm not authoritarian by any means, but there's a standard and we aren't free-range. My mom was because she gave up on structure entirely. She has to have an extracurricular of her choosing (she chose two), she's expected to not complain or refuse when an adult tells her to do something, and she can't just eat whatever whenever (she's obese, thanks to her mother). She has a dress code with enforced modesty (men have attempted to pick her up before, she looks older than she is) and if she visits a friend, we require the friend's parents to call us because she's had problems with running off and lying where she's at. There's no dating at all.

Freedoms are earned and taken away. We have activities planned as a household on weekends and she must attend. She can't use her phone or play games until homework is done, she has an established bedtime, and must turn in every assignment at school.

I can see why some things would be different for some kids, but in general, even well behaved kids need a degree of structure and strictness because they're still kids.

Even when I was a teen, I got decent grades and so on, because I didn't do openly stupid things my mom left it alone. I had no rules after the age of 14 besides I had to be home by 8 on weeknights and she had to know where I was. I thought it was the best, until I think of how it made my early adulthood an uphill battle.