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Why would anyone bother to loathe Acquisitions Inc.? No one is being forced to use it and it doesn't have to impact anyone's personal FR, so why the nerd rage?. There is very much a thing as taking yourself too seriously and that, for me, makes the list. Personally I think the book is brilliant, and I'm actually going to be using it to frame the next campaign I run for my boys as an arc to string together a series of classic modules like KotBL.
I may also snag that Legion of Doom idea. I'm prepping Dragon Heist right now and that seems like a way more fun segue that doing the Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Just mix in a Professor Moriarty character (which I was going to do anyway) and it sounds like a blast.
It's the same type of nerd rage you get with people saying dragonborn and tieflings don't belong in FR or Grayhawk or Dark Sun or (insert other setting that existed before WotC put them in the PHB), saying it ruins "their" (insert setting). And the Acq Inc book is canon, which you know how much nerds LOVE canon unless it goes against what they perceive as the "One True Canon", such as the Faction War in Planescape, anything after 1984 for Grayhawk, and so on.
This is one reason I prefer to use my own setting of my own creation, and not something a company published. No one else can say "that's not real canon!" when it comes to my setting, only me. Jimmy from the FLGS who is super into FR can't throw that phrase around since I don't use FR.