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I don't know if there is a correct way or not, it really depends on what you are building. I think you have to have a lot of nested subforms before it impacts performance to a noticeable degree.
I tend to put everything under one master subform with elements broken up into more subforms. Especially if there is lots of showing and hiding and flowed layouts then I don't have to worry about how things are going to flow - it's just one big flowed subform with everything in it. I also use subforms for grouping objects as I find Designer's grouping function to be painful to use.
But it can be helpful to have more than one top level subform depending on what you are doing, like with static pages. I've had a few projects where the main part of the form is flowed but it is followed by static pages for help or that kind of thing, so I kept the static pages separate from the flowed subform.
Having one main subform has helped a couple of times when I've added checks for JavaScript or Acrobat version, then you can hide or show the whole form in one go.
-subMain (flowed)
--subHeader (positioned)
--subInfo (flowed)
---subHidden1 (positioned)
---subHidden2 (flowed)
--subFooter(positioned)
-subStaticPage (positioned)
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