Another point is that a big thing about lag is that we're not opening up our overall hand standards so much as we're opening our hands played in certain positions/situations.

Take a 17/14's range as a standard and just add in optimization of isolations and stealing/restealing, and we'll be much looser. Playing lag isn't playing stupid. We're not opening T7 UTG even if we're crazy 40vpip. We're simply just playing more hands when they become profitable, and in some positions vs some players even 42 is plus ev. Not often, but sometimes, and a bunch of different sometimes in this hugely dynamic game adds a lot.