
So Eric made a followup video see Answering the Critics - More on The Smart Gamer's Guide to Putting Away Games.

A lot of commenters are very hardcore serious sorters, not only insisting that having all pieces sorted by type is always more efficient, but that careful sorting and storage is necessary to protect pieces from damage, and not doing so means you do not value your game.

that Eric's method is "not acceptable", Eric has "no respect", Eric is a "troll", the commenter would refuse to play games with Eric, etc etc). This garnered a number of surprisingly hostile judgmental comments (e.g. See the video and discussion here: The Smart Gamer's Guide to Putting Away Board Games Then during setup the next time you play, he dumps all the pieces into a mixed mass on the table and players sort as needed during setup. no sorting, no bags, just loose in the box all mixed together.

Eric Martin posted an interesting amusing provocative video about putting away games, in which, for most games, he simply dumps all the pieces into the game box, i.e.
