'instead of only' discussion

[Jerle]

@Icefire

“Instead of” does mean “in place of” whether the word “only” is there or not.

The word “only” makes a huge difference to context. Without “only”, then you’re right in that they were suggesting to replace mouse with WASD. With “only”, many people (including Sarno) understood it as multiple options (WASD and mouse) in place of just having one option (mouse).