>>95898007
>Gygax even wrote lengthy laments over "ruleplayers"
Gygax was talking specifically about what we, these days, would call 'Rules Lawyers'

>Obsessing over rules is what OSR tries to avoid
I disagree, story taking priority over gameplay is what OSR is most against, with inflexibility and metaplay being a secondary bugbear.
ACKS doesn't suggest Hickmanning it up, quite the opposite.
It doesn't have any buildshit shenanigans that lets players break the game.
The rules enable player agency at every step of the way, there's no 'You have to take 3 feats and give the DM a handy to access the markets subsystem', it's purely 'Here's a transparent review of the mechanics you can access'.

'Mother may I' is the death of player agency since the players don't know if doing the same thing is going to give the same results week on week.
It also gives the DM a toolbox to actually build their own settings rather than relying on cargo-cult thinking or reusing old ideas.

>>95898072
>his thread in general has a problem of people getting mad that someone else plays their game with different focuses
Just the one, c'est la vie though.