Nice rant carrot man and I think the general sentiment certainly often rings true with my game.

I've found that after some time away in particular, I return to the tables and crush the living shit out the the games for 8k-15k hands (partly boom switch I'm sure) before slipping into some shit play versus regs where I'm obsessed with not being exploitable (barrel too much, call too many re-steals, etc) and end up playing far from profitably. I'm far from a dick-waver, butI do get involved in a lot of spots that I don't need to.

That said, I still keep my style simple against the tards, who essentially cover my spew to the regs during these stages. What amazes me is when I see other shitty regs betting third pot on the river with the nuts against fish when an overbet jam would get called with the same frequency. I guess playing as exploitative a style as possible is always going to be the way to crush the micros and we should never forget that, however much work we do away from the tables.