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So what is this idea about "Coherency" guidelines, are they in any way important?
The "coherence" guidelines are not important
in that you don't need to know anything about them to contribute to wikipedia
The "coherence" guidelines are extremely important
in that they give the basic philosophies behind many of the central policies, and help the composition of other wikipedia guidelines stay coherent
Examples of "coherence" guidelines
wikipedia:importance - how "importance" is defined is, yeah, important; even the central
NPOV policy depends on how "importance" is defined, see
NPOV tutorial#Space and balance. Nonetheless the importance guideline is, of course, less important than the NPOV policy itself (which usually can be applied with a merely intuitive understanding of "importance")
wikipedia:easy navigation - This guideline has few practical recommendations when you're writing wikipedia articles, its main objective is to sort out inconsistencies sometimes creeping into guidelines covering similar topics.