I can't warm up to infinite-deck anything. None of the statistics have ever interested me. If i-d BS closely resembles correct multi-deck BS, then I'll learn the latter, thank you, and be 100% correct, instead of being almost correct.

You can't do that because there's more than one (unless you choose to learn 27-d basic, which is identical to i-d basic, as well as 28-d basic, 29-d basic, and so on)! In fact, you will have four different versions to learn for 2-d through 8-d.

I must have missed the definitive answer to your original question: "Your answers to any or all of the above questions are eagerly solicited. In short, just what would you want us researchers and authors to call `basic strategy'?"

I presented a simple, elegant solution, and you can't warm up to it because, what, you're stuck at the table? Pretty silly, no?

ETF