There is a group of people that gather to drill and practice. I've been engaging with them and have enjoyed in testing theories and techniques. I think of them as my test animals... (Actually, I don't but it seemed an amusing line.)
One of the recent techniques is to lock your wrist for dinks that are off to your side, be it backhand or forehand. Ben Johns has a YouTube video on the topic. But basically, you want to position your paddle so that the face points back to the middle of the court, lock it into that position, and then using an arm stroke, gently dink the ball back.
This works well and as I paid attention to it in my play for the next week, the utility of locking my wrist showed up more frequently than I expected and not always in the dinking game.
What a locked wrist gets you is a lot of consistency. It produces less power than when you allow your wrist to snap, or swing. But power is usually your enemy when playing pickleball, control and consistency is what you want.
So dinks look better, some shots from mid court with a locked wrist were unexpectedly frequent. What does this do for miss hits? This is so common it's almost useful... Who hasn't miss hit the ball for a soft winner?
Miss hits are difficult to avoid. They occur when the ball doesn't bounce well, or there is a lot of spin or wind. It's quite common. Now, new theory!, if you are whipping your wrist around it's a lot easier to miss hit a ball. The whipping wrist decreases the time when your paddle is in an acceptable position to hit the ball. Then you have to synchronize your arm swing and the wrist whip with the ball position. And the ball position due to spin and bad bounces, can be difficult to hit.
So something to try is to avoid the wrist whip. Find a good wrist position for each shot, then use more arm and or body action to strike the ball. With this technique you will have less moving parts and more control and maybe less miss hits.
Final thoughts on this: let's talk briefly about serving. This is a case when you control a lot of variables and you don't have to worry about the ball spinning or bouncing, so you can use more wrist snap to get more power. But you will still be more consistent with a stable wrist and there is still a very small margin of error due to the wrist flip.