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"[T]he logic behind which hands to play in which positions is grounded in how many players are left to act after you...." -- Hence we both agree that dropping from the front is correct.

As for dogma, I agree it's not dogma if he's comparing some particular starting hand recommendations and trying to ensure that he and the recommender are speaking the same language. I'm just saying, it's silly to debate whether MP1 could be called EP2 or what have you, when it obviously has characteristics of both early and middle position.

Your position names are the closest to a de facto standard, probably in part because of the Hand Converter. But AFAIK there's no guarantee that, say, someone from RGP or some arbitrary book would use precisely the same terminology.