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I don't know rotors. The two crank arm pinch bolts need grease and a torque wrench. Then they won't get loose. Grease and torque on the stem bolts. I've never needed to do chainring bolts, but grease sounds correct there too.
I do use loctite on bottle cage bolts and on blinky light clamps. I don't want to tighten those too much, and the thread locker is good there.
Loctite on my adventure bike's fender and rear rack bolts.
No argument there, I guess. The bottom line is probably that properly torqued fasteners are unlikely to come loose, though I do notice that I’ve received several rotor bolts with thread lock pre-applied. I think I had some FSA pinch bolts with thread lock pre-applied also, though I could be mistaken.
I’ve always assumed that many fasteners will need some sort of compound or lubricant — grease, anti-seize, or thread lock — as a consequence of being inserted into a dissimilar material. It’s usually a steel fastener in an aluminum part. That takes us to the “grease vs anti-seize” discussion, which I think has been beaten to death in several other threads ;-)
FWIW, I would never argue with someone who uses “rm -rf” as a handle <g>.