But from my perspective, playing someone who's in the mindset of punishing my awful opening sounds exciting! If you measure exclusively against the metric of "

But from my perspective, playing someone who's in the mindset of punishing my awful opening sounds exciting! If you measure exclusively against the metric of "how to max out your rating", then yeah, weird openings aren't very helpful. But if your metric is "how to dredge wild tactical games out of opponents, even if I lose more often", then weird openings are generally superior. Of course the better way to neutralize opening prep and experience more wild games is just to play more Chess 960.