Your method makes more sense to me.
The need to gatekeep a genre which - by now - I reckon has far more entries that don’t match the definition of a traditional/classic rogue-like game just seems unnecessary.
Giving a qualifier to ‘roguelike’ to delineate the classic versus more flexible/modern style makes more sense.
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