as soon as we deviate from equal measures paper scissors rock then we are no longer playing gto and knowing what gto is at this point makes no difference to our lives.
we can transfer this to poker. we can definatly never play gto and never understand it to beat the micros. life does get harder for us when we start to need it but dont understand it at all.
i suppose youll get what you want from the micros if you never learn it but you could always use those cheap stakes to actually start to understand the game.