To answer OP's question, no it is not "bad form". The real concern is having your transaction confirmed at the shortest possible time. It would be a pain to wait for your transaction to be confirmed sometimes.
I have another question. Have anyone here have had unconfirmed transactions by using the standard BTC.0001 fee amount? I have never had any problems before when I am sending $50 to $100 worth of Bitcoins. But I have started paying higher fees after reading that there were some users here who had encountered problems with their transactions.
As of now never experience any problem in my transactions i am using 10k sat too just for experiment the speed few weeks ago.. sometimes there is a different speed or there is no assurance that you can get the exact speed if you are paying in default fee.
Right now it is just a small amount of fee even you are paying the maximum fee in recommended fee in electrum.. the speed for me is fine and it takes few minutes and you will get confirm.. unlike you are paying small fee it needs to mine a block before it confirms..