Oh, sorry if I was a little over the top for the sake of satire then. I don't mean that it is universally bad.
Just over complex for the majority of players
back then it gained the nickname of "Rule Monster" for a reason.
That said, I think it was probably one of the few systems that you could technicallysin play SOLO since there were table even for exploration, encounters, plot elements and progression and so on...
You could probably play a somehow decent fully randomized game.