Not exactly. That's the cool thing about this stuff. You can baby it and be fine, or thrash it and be fine. The main purpose for the 'babying' period previously was for the rough edges that were missed in the assembly process to be caught by the filter and not distributed throughout the engine.
New cars are pretty advanced, and so is the assembly process. You'll be fine either way.
My babying comment was for like the first 5k miles or so. Example, Some people by grandma cars and then try to race them because they are low miles, etc. Everything fails because the engine isn't used to those loads and pressures.