am I stupid for thinking this type of thread is somewhat pointless?

I say that having posted the same type of thing myself fwiw.

Beating any limit is rarely about finding formulas that work. It's about beating ppl. It has been more profitable for me to find one player who will overreact to getting bullied than to spend hours poring over preflop and positional stats.

Since this thread seems to be indirectly about "how can I improve my game" see if you can speed up your ability to get very precise reads about how other players at the table are feeling.

Maybe forget about importing hands for a few sessions and just play each situation according to the feeling of the situation rather than the way it fits into some all-encompassing 3-street strategy against a "regular". See what happens when you open-raise every hand from CO and Btn when folded to you. See how you can adapt to ppl adapting to you...

I know you're an active experimentor Renton so you've prob done all this stuff a ton. But it seems to me that this is the essense of exploring your game and improving and it's a mistake to never come back to the kind of naive, "how does this situation work" approach. That is where most significant progress is made (for me at least).

If I were you I'd pitch the notion of ever playing a hand in a vaccum. Don't just sit at a table. Watch a few orbits before sitting down. Fuck your stats for a few weeks. What you described at the top of the OP sounded good fwiw.