You're partly responsible for renewing the obsession, but you most certainly didn't originate it.
It might be feeling a little unfun.
Okay, yeah, it's definitely feeling like that.
People keep talking sense...
It's just that, once I started considering the possibility of two groups of stats, and every roll adding together one stat from each group, an idea for the look of the stat block came into my head:
I think it was the exclamation mark that really got its hooks in my brain.
Of course, the second set proved to be even more resistant to acronyming than the first.