Abakjud - it's interesting to me that "supplement" meant such a very, VERY different thing to me early-on than it came to mean later. In the early days, it really felt like additional "official" material was just covering stuff that somehow got "missed", or that segments of the playing community directly said they wanted. And yeah, groups-as-a-whole generally seemed to want it, rather than some individuals didn't care and some did.
Of course, I find the approach you reached (supplement avoidance) emminently sane.