Not the only, but that playstyle - which was fine for 30 something years - has just as much right to be the default playstyle as yours. As an addon module, wimpy ghouls and any other padding of walls and dulling of blades is fine.
Well excuse me for not being a killer DM who judges a game's quality by the number of PC corpses it generates.
"Wimpy ghouls"? "Any other padding of walls and dulling of blades"? And yet you insist you aren't guilty of "one true way-ism". I wonder if you even comprehend just how hostile you're being here.