Some point form comments:

1. Blades with two players is a dream. I ran it for 4 (with an occasional 5th) and it can be hard to properly moderate spotlight time, because everyone is always scrambling to use their best skill, and flashbacking on top of flashbacks. I am a big fan of the game, and I think it’s developing nicely, but small groups make it much more manageable.

2. Leverage is my personal favourite Cortex Plus system. It has nice, easy character creation based on splats that are pretty close to PbtA playbooks, and I think it has the clearest rules for when to add advantages and what they do.

3. “[S]uper-intersectional frontier communities and brutal colonialism” in an RPG is basically all I want these days. It doesn’t even have to be a “western”. I’d be happy with that in basically any historical setting (with my particular fondness being for pre-American Revolution colonialism in Canada and the 13 Colonies).

4. Old-school; man, do I ever love their passion. It’s like Eli Roth fans (in response, not necessarily in content): clearly what’s happening is making people really happy, but it is just not a thing I respond to or comprehend.