I agree as well! It feels like a real “line of flight” from the manifesto jam. I enjoyed how much discussion that jam provoked, and I like how a piece of it just got on a spaceship and planted its flag here as ANYTHING JAM. It’s like a spinoff series.
One thing I do enjoy about jams is the arbitrary deadlines, I feel the arbitrary deadline is often the main point, and the theme/rules secondary. It would be interesting to think of them more like weird calendrical traditions or holidays that demand some kind of communal participation. This is how the tragedy competitions worked in ancient Athens. This is also kind of how the bi-annual, solstice-aligned Decker jams are starting to feel, like holiday events. But Anything Jam is really getting me to reflect on the structure of jams themselves.