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Standard issue canned reply to attempt to set aside that someone is successful with a method one doesn't approve of. You may want to consider that people are drawn to styles that they like and that this may have something to do with why they fight the way they do. If you made Drunken Gung Fu successful by dedicating 30 years of your life to it, you'd be extraordinary. Being extraordinary perhaps should be encouraged more in our Sports if we want them to appeal to people who otherwise wouldn't have much interest in seeing people always fight the same ways. If you don't like a style, that's perfectly fine. But not everyone who actually fights is going to necessarily choose their style merely based on the possible downfalls of it. Some fighters (and these ones tend to end up being the best) are going to attempt to do what majority thinks they shouldn't.
FWIW, there is no "standard efficient MMA stance," almost every athletes stance comes from different disciplines. If you're going to argue something, at least argue it with a notion that actually exists.
We are talking about two different things here. I am talking about being effiecient and leaving less holes to exploit. You seem to be talking about being pleasing to the audience, and attracting more viewers, and doing things different for the sake of being different. I guess in that case, it depends what the individuals goals are.
And BTW, there is a standard efficient MMA stance. Maybe you could have said what you said 20 years ago during the style vs style days. Walk into any professional MMA training camp, and they have that template stance ready for you to use.