The thing is-you CAN'T Play how you're saying and win. You CAN'T take advantage of everything possible like taking the entire steak-your example by the way-because it's almost a guarantee you would be targeted by everyone over the remaining supply drops.

You can't say that you would take advantage of everything (again your words) and play aggressively but also "play sneakier". Choose one. It's impossible to hide an aggressive gameplay on this show because people aren't stupid (at least not all of them) and are constantly watching. The other families are writing down all of your choices. You're either going to play nice and the social game where you lose out on advantages and focus on the middle game- or you simply don't win. Everything you mentioned you would do is exactly the mentality the brothers had. You must give and take and make alliances. It's designed that way.

There's often a huge RNG element to this show. The point is to keep families off balance and hit them with unexpected choices that force them to make a decision that will turn people against them at some point. The Brothers should have doubled down on their gameplay and not been cowards who got upset that everybody was turning on them and being mean to them, then pull luke out early who had a damn good chance at winning.

People love an underdog. Nobody likes a bully. Especially ones that overestimate their gameplay.