it's true, RUSH isn't like the TCG/OCG
this is a good thing btw.
i'd say RUSH plays alot more like the what the anime feels like than modern yugioh.
i can see a gx random character summoning gilford the legend and equipping 3 equips as their big powerful wincon (literally happens in gx, chazz vs that one obelisk blue)
i don't see a character from any of the anime normal summoning reinonheart and then milling 30 cards and ending on 20 interruptions and 3 handtraps in hand.
in this sense, RUSH is more yugioh than yugioh will ever be yugioh.