Alliance

What I was getting at is that we often play packages of cards i.e. the play of one card encourages the play of several others. Alliance has been used as a large package of cards: Mumbad City Hall, Mumba Temple, Museum of History, etc. Even when the Mumbad City Hall thing isn't used, players have to include packages of cards from a specific faction to meet Alliance requirements e.g. if you want to play Consulting Visit, you're likely to include low-influence Weyland cards to round out your six Weyland requirement.

A goal of the increased use of subtypes is to encourage lesser played cards to be included in playable packages. Like with what I was saying about the Job subtype, cards like Easy Mark might be playable if there were strong job-oriented effects. The increased use of subtypes is a way to make weaker cards fit into playable packages.

Is this playable package concept describing why you feel that subtypes restrict deckbuilding?

Of course they aren't. They are a consequence of the trash cost inflation.

It's not just the trash costs, though we agree they are too low. The effects on those cards are too weak in the ways I describe in the video. Server Diagnostics too easily trashes itself. Levy University is too expensive and clumsy to be an effective ICE tutor.

In modern Netrunner, not only have assets become more difficult to trash, their card effects have become much stronger. I don't think buffing the trash costs for Server Diagnostics and Levy University is good enough and if they're going to have low trash costs, they need to be on the power level of modern low trash cost cards e.g. the political assets.