On a scale of 1 to 10 what do you rate scholars mate


maybe a 5, the truth is, the main reason its so frowned upon its because it is mostly absolute noobs who play it, if you look at the resulting position objectively, white gets...an acceptable position, equal maybe a feather bit worse but nothing major. the main reason is that the tempo wasting black gains is really by playing g6 which is not exactly the most taxing formation.
there is no big advantage here.