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>Flashbacks are a prime example of storygame mechanics. They allow the players to retroactively invent a past action instead of needing to actually take that action in game at the appropriate time.
Ideally flashbacks are there to add events that wouldn't make sense before, every heist movie has that stuff and it's part of the genre. It's also a very different experience in practice from planning for a million tiny things before the actual game starts, it makes sense to have different mechanics for different games focused on different experiences. It's not a one or the other.

In the particular case of BiD, a lot of people bring up how the creator plays the game differently from what they understood in the book. You have to play the game the game the right way to have fun and player guides trying to be as universal as possible may missrepresent stuff. Same way an adversarial DM can be a ton of fun if that's what you sat down for and they are playing within the rules, but if described poorly it can sound like some dude just saying no to whatever you wanted to do (and some manuals read that way, I remember a Star Wars one that gave awful advice about making up excuses to rail road players, keep them from using their class stuff and switch the rules on the go)

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Why haven't storygames enjoyed the same success as D&D?