What's so bad about mirror go?

Not exactly.
The “other player’s opening strategy” is actually your opening strategy, which is the main issue.

Playing moves that the opponent wouldn’t like to see because they distress their strategy and goals, is kind of the point of the game and not a reason to resign at all.

So, it is not a matter of “liking or disliking” it.
It is a matter of it not being engaging, because it is not an intellectual refutation of your moves, but just an automatic reflection of what you are doing and thinking.

Go has been many times been said to be like a discussion between the two players, so if you like a funny example, it is the same issue with that Monty Python clip with the “argument service”. That person signed up for an actual argument which is “an intellectual process, not an automatic gainsay of whatever they were saying”.

You signed up to play with another human and you are starting the game playing with yourself (pun and innuendo not intended, but quite fitting nonetheless) and, as far as I am concerned, if they want to win so much as to resort to that kind of lame strategy, fine, let them win.

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