Yes you could use a similar stroke with LP to deal with most balls regardless of spin. I tried LPs with my offhand too and receiving/attacking short serves was the easiest thing to do with LPs. I didn't have to be that precise in reading the spin as I would have needed compared to when I used inverted with my main hand. This is not fetish or whatever, it's simply reality.
Fang Yinchi also recently lost to Ba Yongbo (a LP specialist) and he was complaining that regardless of what he served, Ba Yongbo can simply return it with the exact same method. He was simply immune to serve spin variation by Fang (who is a damn good player who even beat some international players out there).
so why isn't all the LP users wining points on service return???
my first question you replied to was me talking about where are the LP world champions = none
now, my question to you is even more fun. Where are all these powerful LP users winning serve returns out there?
you know, even if you can give me a list, service return is just 1 tiny bit of the game for pros.
The balls will come back, unlike amateur circuit.
so no matter how much you want to try, you are still bringing in amateur talk into pro space.
The reality as you put it, is there is not much success out there for the past few decades at least (since you named LGL, so we can go back to 3 decades).
So where are all these LP users winning serve returns?
and btw you start off by "serve short return", and when I replied with facts, then you jump to "pros misreading spin" and now you bringing up some provincial player at best and "you" among all pros out there.
I have to say, you are jumping around in too many circles, it is tying and time wasting to follow you jumping around.
reality is, you can't give me a list of world champions or all the pros in the past 30 years that has an easy serve return game.
table tennis is a lot more advance than you think
you are going to have some random player catching SYS and any top elite on a bad day.
But have a 5 or 10 times, it is different.
Those random players in this thread - has not win anything out there, so that is why they are lowly ranked.
Today beat SYS, next 10 players at WR100 level, they could loose against to.
The biggest consistence success in past 30 years probably has been choppers in both genders, against the world top 10 and they sure aren't service return "advantage" as you put it.
I can't think of anyone to back your view point.