Platforms all the way.
Still use them today on my MTBs - a C'dale Prophet with more suspension travel than an E-maxx on steroids and an Orange P7 for those old Skool 'steel is real' moments
Can't abide the thought of clipless pedals - need to get as far away from the bike as possible when you trash it. Sod the pedalling inefficiencies when going uphill - who wants to pedal uphill anyway - that's why God invented chairlifts.
Mind you - there are no hills in Essex anyway...