Keith Stetson why would you consider DW to have “moves as tools”? I don’t play/run it that way at all, and I admit when I have played with GM’s that run it in a way that seems like what you are talking about (for example, treating Defy Danger a catch all skill roll move instead of actually paying attention to its trigger) it drove me up a wall.

Do you think it is intrinsic to the game? Is it written somewhere in the rules I have missed/forgotten?

This may be too specific for this thread, Paul Beakley , tell me to take it elsewhere if you want.