Revisiting SSHE (the book) in 2024

I'm probably going to be getting back into poker this year. We'll see if life throws curveballs at me to prevent it, but it looks like I'll be playing regularly for the first time since early summer 2019.

Since most of the poker I play is live SSLHE, I dusted off my old copy of SSHE intending to re-read it from cover to cover several times.

DISCLAIMER: I haven't read the "preflop checkup spots" post yet 😃

I remember a lot of debates about how the book recommends a lot of limping with starting hands that play well multiway and have little if any preflop edge. I gotta say, in early and middle position at a table where 4 to 6 people are seeing every flop and a raise means exactly AA, KK or QQ, I don't understand the hate for open limping or limping along with these hands as long as you can be reasonably sure you're going to get at LEAST a 4-way pot if not 6-way and rarely get raised.

Without getting too caught up in the minutiae of exactly what the ranges should be, thoughts?

I'll probably have more conversational questions later but this seems like a reasonable place to start.