Question about slipping first stitch in row purlwise with yarn in front vs in back

Hi, everybody, I’m so grateful as always for your help. My question today involves Brooklyn Tweed’s Wallace pattern, which is a shawl that I am obsessed with and determined to create. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and have been, as instructed, slipping the first stitch of right-side rows with yarn in back and the first stitch of wrong-side rows with yarn in front. When I look at videos online I can see that the position of the yarn in the middle of a row makes a difference when slipping purlwise. However, when I do this on the first stitch, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Am I doing it wrong, or is it maybe that in the pattern they are specifying this to maintain consistency as right-side rows are more “knitty” and wrong-side are more “purly.”

Here’s also a nice video that adds in the manner in which the stitch is slipped, knitwise or purlwise. See about 4:45min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnP0MUgOzWo

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Thank you both!!!