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@Dooks-Fatberg
No! I've just settled on what sounds good to me.
Fuzz first because germanium fuzz wants to see/receive the unbuffered output from your guitar. For ages I had it after a TU2 which has a buffer and the fuzz sounded shrill and thin. Did some reading and figured out that gemanium fuzz needs to go first. That changed my relationship with the Fuzz Factory, after ages of not being able to get a sound that I liked out of it I now love it.
As for drive into distortion, it's just preference. My thought process has always been to push a dirty pedal by having the cleaner ones providing more signal into them. I used to use a clean boost into a TS9 like this. With that set up you could have clean, clean plus clean boost. Then I'd use the TS9 for main crunch sound with boost off and add in the clean boost in front of the TS9 which would push it into high gain singing sustain territory.
My current set up is similar with the exception of fuzz coming first as per above. I have parallel compression (Tone Press) set to mild signal boost into mid humpy medium gain O/D (Klone) aping the set-up mentioned above, then I have Distortion (RAT) set with medium low gain as well so that when I pile the boost and OD into that it goes full-bore, but doesn't fall apart into mush.
That's the theory anyway. Haven't tried it at gig volume level yet....