I'll post statistical evaluations here.
Nimzo-Larsen attack during 19th century. General trends.

It's surprising that nobody thought to play the Réti variation 1. b3 d5 2. Nf3.
P.S. Actually, I have found 2 Albin's games arising as transpositions from the Réti opening. I'll add them to the first post.

Oh, I've discovered my own thread LoL (I create so many topics ) that seems a bit useful for those who like NLA.

1.b3 d5 2.d4 is not Nimzowitch Larsen , it's actually a no name opening(you can call it irregular queen's pawn opening).
Also 1.b3 d5 2.f4 is Bird and the double fianchetto is Benko(1.g3). In Nimzo Larsen White doesn't want to do a double fianchetto while in Benko the early double fianchetto is one of the ways to avoid transposition to Reti and often leads to hippo.
All right, I can agree with your remarks.

Are you trying to make me feel bad?
LoL Why ?!? U made reasonable remarks. I also put the name QPG = Queen's Pawn Game for 2. d4 games as U can see in the first post.

Love it, they were first hyper-modern masters not Reti, Nimzovitch and the rest; 19th century masters are the best and creative and greatest innovators, and the rest are copy-cat "meow".

Love it, they were first hyper-modern masters not Reti, Nimzovitch and the rest; 19th century masters are the best and creative and greatest innovators, and the rest are copy-cat "meow".
And, as I tried to show in colors, they played something close to the modern main lines.

I prefer to transpose from 1.c4 to the Larsen-Nimzo Attack or the Van Kruij just so I can say that I play the English:
https://www.chess.com/game/live/53670571527
https://www.chess.com/game/live/51253831011
I've found 16 games: NLA during 19th century. I indicate main lines and deviations. Engine evaluations are taken from the ChessOK database.
Modern Variation:
Classical Variation: