We all know Netrunner’s power level is relatively flat thus far - a lot of the all stars of the tournament meta are still from the Core Set. Core-only decks are obviously weaker than all-cards-ever decks and I think a lot of that is due to influence limits - Core may have a lot of good cards but a lot of them are faction-restricted - for example needing to splash Beanstalk in TWIY-biotics if you don’t have Sweeps Week and so on, needing Anarch influence to recur things in the absence of Same Old Thing, and the list goes on.
So as a fun thought experiment, what if you could use, say, 20 or 22 influence instead of 15 in exchange for only using Core Set cards in your deck. Do you think you could be competitive with that?