I’ll stand by my original statement. You seem to be steelmanning what I said, that GTO-style play that works against strong players will also be the most-correct style of play against a player (or player pool) with defined weaknesses. I agree with you that such a statement would be inaccurate, and have posted here and elsewhere about how to deviate from optimal strategies in order to maximally exploit the weak, passive player pool endemic to Replay.
What I actually said was that strategies that work against strong players should also work - and work better - against weak players. If we were to quantify player weakness by assessing deviation from optimal strategy, this becomes true by definition: the larger the deviation, the greater the EV delta against an optimal player.
As for discussions on limping and preflop strategy, feel free to continue the discussion in the following thread: Preflop Limping is Bad