>>96006856
For what it's worth anon, on the assumption you're shooting straight, a lot of the backlash surrounding this X-card shit is because it's been drawn into the larger culture wars bs that's been going on. Namely that a lot of the bigger influencer names that push for this nonsense in tabletop games are very out and proud leftists who want to promote a culture of acceptance and safe fun, which is the kind of thing that should be something everyone wants until you realize how absolutely useless most X-cards are to the majority of tables. Especially cause one of the biggest promoters of them ended up in a situation where he dm'd a live-streamed game session and made his players uncomfortable with something vaguely sexual that nobody felt comfortable dealing with...aka the precise kind of situation the X-card was meant to stop.

Either way, if you talk to your table, then you're fine and don't need to worry about it further.

Then again, maybe my disdain comes from how I've experienced the spiritual opposite, gameplay mechanics in japanese ttrpgs that encourage player participation and encouraging the other players such as the chits from Tenra Bansho Zero, so I value communication between dms and players quite a bit.