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That's the main thing, definitely, nostalgia shades our perceptions in wonderful ways, sometimes. When they said "you can't go home again" (ie, you can never recapture the wonder of childhood) they reckoned without 1e AD&D.
Mearls certainly managed some 140-character heartfelt near-prose-poems, there. I mean, I despise twitter in general, but reading that, I felt something, genuinely.
That he is essentially talking about the game being a chaotic, unplayable mess, if viewed as a mere game without the experience of having played it back in the day, in no way diminishes that.
I know one of your frequent talking points is that love for 1e is just "nostalgia", but Mearls isn't just reminiscing about 1e, he actually played it and apparently had a transcendent experience doing so.
Are you writing that off as nostalgia as well? If so, then by what evidence would you accept that some people actually enjoy 1e? Or is all possible evidence automatically just nostalgia? To me that belongs in a category "If you deny the conspiracy then you much be part of it."