@chess_pain@mornings0da Yeah I was not familiar with that line before now but on principle avoiding having to learn a bunch of Nimzo theory seems sensible (plus Mamedyarov for one seems to go into it willingly as Black)
@mornings0da Your Nimzos, QGDs, etc can have fireworks in the right lines. Plenty of theory there ofc. you just don't want to go into 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 b6?! 4. e4 where White has an edge
@mornings0da Botvinnik also loved the English and French. He has a few games with the Dutch in the collection I have (although he'd start with 1... e6)