It depends how you define exploit.
It's true some classic "mechanics" were really just unintended features/bugs that players figured out how to use in creative and emergent ways---sometimes in game defining ways, so much so that the original devs left them in game and decided to developed the game around them. We know this mostly by statements that the original and early teams made about the game.
As far as I'm concerned, for all intents and purposes on p99, classic eq means exactly whatever Nilbog/Rogean say it is. They were forced to make choices based on available information, limitations of the client, and their own logical interpretation of the vision they have for p99. Its their play pen.
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