This is closer to the process I've seen outlined everywhere. I just did new EBC yellow stuff pads and rotors on my '14 Ram and the process was ~5 stops from 35-40mph at a firm but not overly aggressive rate. Then 5 stops from 60mph at a very aggressive but not triggering the ABS rate. Then let everything cool down. By the 5th more aggressive stop the pads were smoking so any more abuse like that would just be wasting material and putting unnecessary heat into the rotors.
Do you have a source that said to do that procedure? 40+ aggressive stops back to back is pretty absurd and would just kill a ton of brake pad material. None of the big brake suppliers recommend anything remotely like this.
Partial quote for Corvette brake burnishing....
Thus the burnishing procedure. The stops in question need to be done sans ABS, ie threshold braking the car, so that a constant pressure is kept on the pad during the stop. This is to help build up the heat in the pad. The goal here is to bake off the top layer of bonding agent from the pad so that an air pocket forming becomes impossible or highly unlikely.
GM has determined that, on average, it takes 50 60-0 stops in 10 minutes' time to get the pads hot enough for that. Basically what you're looking for is the pad to start fading bad during the procedure. That
generally happens around stop 40 or so, when braking distances feel like they're increasing dramatically. Once this point has hit, the gasses are beginning to boil off. A few more stops
after that point and the brakes will feel like they're grabbing before you even touch the pedal. At that point: you're done. Drive the car for a while at legal speeds to cool the pads