As I said, PLENTY of salt :)
Thanks
@tpr Also, I wasn't saying cxd4 was early HERE. Quite the opposite, if that wasn't clear. Personally, I would look at it like this: if you play Nc6, your opponent has the chance to play c3 and the centre appears harder to undermine. And I personally like the position if white chooses Bd3 (which I hadn't considered, me being a patzer) and after the exchanges for black, but that's taste more than anything else.
Of course, I figured 4. Nf3 was playable, after all it was in the opening book and Stockfish didn't label it a mistake. But I thought (wrongly) that it was inferior. Second most common move, if I remember it correctly but it was by a huge margin. 4 c3 had almost 10000 whereas 4 Nf3 had only a couple of hundreds.
And you'd be surprised how many times you are able to hold on to a pawn you really shouldn't be able to :) At my level, of course.