Tactic for cracking WPA password

[se7enge]

It doesn't make sense to run a rule on a wordlist that contain compounds (e.g. password12345).
But if you break down the words into basic words (e.g. password) and apply a rule (e.g. apply years) you get this candidates:
password1990
password1991
....
password2022

For me they look much better than:
password123451990
password123451991
...
password123452022

I see. I've obviously overlooked the contents of these particular worlists and just ran them without due consideration as that obviously makes sense.

Do you favour any particular wordlists for use with rules that you find productive? And, generally speaking, is it more beneficial to run attacks with rules on smaller wordlists?