It largely was in the 90s mate, the majority was counter attacking. Obviously variations to that, but i used to watch it week in and week out. Grreat era and great players, but the football was of its time. Of course today its different and their is a bit more variance to it.
I definitely dont agree with you on Nuno, of course a manager have a philosophy, but i dont think you've watched Wolves enough if you think he is ultra negative. Ultra negative would be Burnley, Wolves certainly weren't that. Someone like Potter plays it far more safe then Nuno, i honestly dont agree with any of your take here.
On variance if you talk to Wolves they will tell you the difficulty they had last season was because Nuno tried to vary things to much and you can see that he has played different systems at the different clubs he has been at. I thik hes on record saying that systems are secondary beyond culture, philosophy and values - i tend to agree with him.
I think you are giving Carlo a little bit more credit then he deserves, arguably we got found out after the first 5-10 games, he varied it and went with containment - or ultra defensive because he went pragmatic and needed results, i think he lost his way in the second half of the season, e had no identity and he never found an answer he didn't know if wanted Everton to be an attacking team of a defensive team and i dont thik that indecision helped us at all. Just because it was "Carlo", he played some awful stuff here, stuff you are accusing Nuno off who hasnt had an Everton game yet. I dont think Carlo criticism is beyond criticism or you have to talk about him as oracle or diety, im not sure he had a long term plan if im being very honest - so i dont know where the summer of promise was coming from.
We our poles apart in our opinions here and likely our lived experience of both Nuno, Wolves, Carlo and Everton last season. all good mind,