What is good against 1. e4?
The Berlin. Oh wait, thats the opening where white loses the e4 pawn, or waste a tempo with d3, when positionally the best move is d4
The Najdorf. Oh wait, is that the opening where you play moves like Nf6, Nd7-c5, Rc8xc3. And blocading the pawn with Ne5.
I might miss something, but in both the openings which are the most played nowadays, the white weakness is the e4 pawn. So 1. d4! is better than 1. e4
Because of the many wonderful things it does, e4 is the supreme opening move for white. Even deep Blue would choose e4 above all others. Human competition has grown stale and boring. We should look to computer generated games on both sides, Let's face it, we build computers that play chess better than any master, this is fact. Why should we then waste our time studying imperfect master games when we can study perfect computer games? You get my drift? What do you think Joe?
e4 is not an opening