Portals vs flags is a good lens for breaking down fun-banter twitter vs beef-only missionary derp twitter. I’m 100% portal and most of my futile conflicts are due to mistakenly engaging a flag-twitter person with portal twitter rules of engagement.
Take your point, but a quibble: "complex debate" is definitionally about taking sides and attempting to prove one right -- that's what a debate is. You need a different word, "complex conversation" or something.