A few general points, if I may.
I think the lore-adherents in this convo have interesting and worthwhile things to say, even if I don't always agree or connect with their point of view. Their kink is not my kink, but their kink is okay.
But I also think that picking at [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION]'s old Greyhawk game, now these twenty years and more beyond mortal ken, is not a good, useful, or productive way of advancing these ideas. It looks petty. Whether it's intended as badwrongfun or not, it has the effect of saying, to someone who has no way of "fixing" it even if he wanted to (and there's no reason he should want to), "This thing you did was wrong, and this was wrong, and this was wrong too."
Would you want someone picking apart something you have fond memories of, just to make some kind of point?
Would you want the decisions you made in forheavenssake the 90s scrutinized to within an inch of their life and held up as an example of How Not To Do It in conversations about a hobby you enjoy?
It's a thread of discussion that by all rights spent itself a long time ago, but it's kind of passed the mark into Seriously Not Cool territory in the last few days.