> It's more in line with how people talked about & thought about the game in the boom era (the 00s) or possibly even earlier
Note that most poker games were very easy in those days. You'd log in and enter a couple of tables where most of your opponents were going to take the name 'Hold'em' very literally, also some of them were drunk and you could basically expect them to bet with anything without paying any attention to your table image.
So the optimal strategy in those days was to simply wait for solid hands, you would get paid for them anyway even if you had been folding everything for the last hour.
Note that most poker games were very easy in those days. You'd log in and enter a couple of tables where most of your opponents were going to take the name 'Hold'em' very literally, also some of them were drunk and you could basically expect them to bet with anything without paying any attention to your table image.
So the optimal strategy in those days was to simply wait for solid hands, you would get paid for them anyway even if you had been folding everything for the last hour.