I honestly think one of the biggest gaps in people talking about the game is how often they change players. While I have a couple of players who've now gamed with me for almost twenty years (phew), my longest lived full group was about five years. My first twenty years of gaming saw completely changed groups almost yearly, certainly every 3 years.
The notion of having a totally stable group that has gamed together for decades is just completely alien to me. So, the notion of being able to have dozens, or even hundreds of pages of house rules and home-brew stuff just isn't in the cards for me. I simply can't because how the heck could I convey all that to new players? And, frankly, I've had a new player at my table pretty much every single year (and many years, almost every few months).
My approach to gaming is far more in line with something like RPGA or other public gaming. Which, I think, does explain a LOT of the disagreements that happen on the boards. It's so difficult to explain why I choose to do something to someone who just has zero experience with what I'm dealing with. And vice versa of course. People offer advice and my first thought is, "Nope, that's not going to work" - not because it's a bad idea but because I'll have to explain that idea over and over and over again to every new person who sits at my table and it's just not a viable solution.