Slight pun in the question but there are lots of different grammar points on must/must not.
Are all these varieties found in the wild or (as I suspect) only 1 or 2 are used in daily life?
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Maybe one in seven or eight of the many “synonyms” that annoy the crap of the average BunPro user tackling the intermediate levels is truly uncommon. Over time it’s easier to tell them apart based on application/nuance but we’re all the same trenches with all the “howevers”, “don’t need to” and “shoulds”.
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Ya I feel the same about the synonyms! Wish they would tell us which are the most popular and commonly used so I can just do those and then maybe come back later for the others. I mean how many ways do we need to know how to say the same thing? But then again it’s not like I’d want to have the information withheld
The quick answer is that they have different nuances depending on the context. Even in English there’s many different ways to express ‘must’…here’s 792 examples
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80% of this grumble is probably directly attributable to having just gotten a grammar review wrong.
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You must lean because they won’t change the language for you, as you won change the language for them.
you have to lean how they speak when you try to learn their language
they have got to learn all the synonyms when learning english too
because it is required to lean a new language
and you need to learn all of them to properly understand what they are saying
be if you don’t want to be obliged may be learning a new language is not for you
And still are more grammar points in english about expressing something that must be done, but i hope I am not compelled to write them all
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Trying to grasp all these similar grammar points is like painting and being handed a fine tip brush when you can only use a roller. #tenuousanalogy
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I love this reply lol. It really drives the point home to me. Imagine how repetitive this message would be if ‘must’ was used in each sentence. But different synonyms were used and it flowed better. I’m sure that in any language we’d want to know the different ways a concept could be expressed in order to understand different styles of communication from different people. We’ll thank Bunpro in time haha
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saying “must do” pales in comparison to the amount of ways to say " if, even ,no matter, etc." Those drive me nuts.
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I must admit I have thought the same thing a few times about grammar synonyms: it would be good if there was just a little extra information on points that have many similar synonyms to say that “this is very common in natural speech to say ‘have to’, ‘if’ or ‘maybe’ etc”.
Particularly as there has been a few occasions when speaking or emailing my native Japanese tutor and I have used a certain point, she has said that while its grammatically correct, we would usually say it another way, or its more natural to say this *** way. I’m all for learning all of the points, its part of the language and you will surely encounter it, just a hint to say 'this is a very common way to say *** ', or a particular context (I see some of the more formal points already have this).
All of the grammar points that have:したら,えば, すると options come to mind. They are all correct, but is one said more than the others?
In saying that though, the Bunpro team cant be expected to predict everyone’s way of speech, for every age group, for every location & dialect… 
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It’s around 50…