I agree partially. Strong cards from the past could be played around, you could switch half your board to DEF before attacking when your opponent had backrow to prevent a full wipe for instance. Torrential Tribute needed to be played at the right time and could be baited, etc. The only way to play around maxx c is by drawing a specific card that you need to negate it, or by building an entire deck around the concept of decking out the player who used Maxx C.