I can't claim to know what Eternal Torment is like.
But i'm sure its not too disimillar to being the Bakers and seeing how people took the wrong lessons from Apocalypse World and instead are making VERY flanderized versions of it that look nothing like it.
@lumpley.bsky.social15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves.
Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag: