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I would say that the eating more/less arguments only really make sense if you know your calorific maintenance is, what you were eating before, and what you’re eating now. Someone eating 3000kcal of mostly carbs a day probably doesn’t need to eat “more” they just need to swap their carbs for more protein.
Someone eating a well balanced 1800-2000kcal could probably get away with just upping their calorie intake if they wanted to make gains.
Until calories and macros are counted, more or less is fairly meaningless. Especially as when people actually add up what they eat, the result is often drastically different to what they believed. “I eat loads” or “I barely eat” seldom match the numbers. Loads of people I know claim to eat loads, but regularly have a tiny breakfast, almost no lunch, some small snacks through the day and then a big dinner - which adds up to say 2000kcal, while others claim to not eat much but constantly graze on crap, or just eat very calorie dense food in general which has their daily calorie total way higher than they realised.
Bit of a rant, but really if you eat a varied diet, hit your macros and stay within your target calorie ranges for your goal (building muscle, getting lean etc) it’s very rare that it doesn’t work.