My first big hiccup was reconciling what felt like a very constraining set of rules.

I find it funny to think back to when ApWo first came out and remember how many Big Name™ designers asserted that the MC moves were too constraining and “why are you telling me how to roleplay” and etc. ApWo was obviously tragically flawed, or just an instantiation of how Vincent himself specifically runs games.

And now you can look back and treat all of that like Gates saying a computer would never need more than 512k of RAM, or how pundits said the iPhone sucked for not having a hardware keyboard.