small stakes more evolved than SSHE suggests?

[VBM]

For the record, i've read SSHE once, and re-reading it now; it's helped me immensely (serving my 10k hand discipleship in Party $0.5/$1) and continues to serve as my de facto hold'em reference.

However, the premise of the book is how to get the best of opponents who play too many hands and go too far with them.

From what I read in this forum, this hardly seems to be the case for 2+2 players in 2/4 - 6/12 games. I daresay you'd be broke in short order if you walked into a 2/4 game basing your game on this default understanding of your opponents.

I guess what I'm asking is, have the assumptions changed for small-stakes since the time SSHE was published? Does what used to characterize a small-stakes game (loose aggressive, sometimes crazy, play) now only characterize a micro-limits game, and the thinking in small-stakes has advanced to more sophisticated level of play?

Or, maybe 2+2'ers are just an elite crust amongst small stakes player and the assumptions about the majority being LAG's still hold true...

TIA for your thoughts...