Ruin Explorer
Legend
I mean, personally that's how I read his post - that this was D&D but not the kind of D&D he liked.It's possible to acknowledge the way someone else plays as D&D, even if it's not the kind of D&D you happen to like yourself.
And I'm not exactly the most generous soul on the planet when it comes to interpretation.
@DND_Reborn, and I hope he won't mind me saying this, has an idiosyncratic view of D&D, and runs his own game with extremely heavy but well-designed and fascinating house rules. So I wouldn't expect him to see this as "D&D to him". So I think reading in that anyone who plays D&D this way (i.e. "most of us" lol) isn't playing D&D is wrong - it's that they're not playing D&D the way he runs it.