I'm not familiar with low-level C# stuff, but I imagine the reason is increased code size.
And I really doubt that the overflow checking for the playout ID is worth doing. After 4 billion playouts (assuming unsigned 32 bit int) is there any chance of an intersection not being hit once?
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