So here’s my take:

Aesthetically I greatly prefer a game be entirely self enclosed and complete. It feels…non rigorous,I guess, to deal with an incomplete rule set. But small press designers do more with less and they probably can’t get the testing and support and development that a larger operation can bring to bear.

So, as a practical matter I’ll reach out. And when the community of fans gets protective of their thing, I passively aggressively complain. 😛