an icepick through the keyhole

I'd agree with everything you said except for one small bit: we see "Bond, James Bond" in the very last scene. Why they didn't make a bit more of it is beyond me. Bond in the very tailored 3-piece suit, French cuffs on the tailored shirt, shiny shoes, hair tidy. This is the Bond that got re-invented through the course of this movie. We won't know if Craig can pull that off consistently until the NEXT movie.

Mostly I liked this movie as classic Bond straight up. After Thunderball they got too hokey, but I grew up reading the novels.

Oh, yes, my resident poker expert says that it wasn't TEXAS Hold 'Em, but some other form of Hold 'Em. He gave me the reason which I can't remember. I also agree that it doesn't have the same exotic glamour of the old games, but is, apparently, the high stakes game of choice right now.

So, it was a curious combination of past and present. That's what ultimately sat uneasily with me. Do Bond's past, but do it consistently, putting uncouth Bond actually in the past. Or do Bond now, and allow him the sardonic humour and savoir faire that Bond has "now". Instead we had a rather anachronistic story line in a modern setting.