who is running MRL (BAM) Lifters without lifter bore sleeves

Evidently I need to get the book you are working from.

I get the circuitous route the oil goes to get to the rockers, but its essentially a constant flow system. Once the system has pressure there is flow through the system until some engineering problem crops up and the system can't overcome that.

That long route to the rockers is one reason why I don't like hot idle oil pressure to get below about 40 pounds. And the engineering of the system screams for a bit more oil pressure.

I've done dyno testing where a reduction of oil pressure was a loss of HP and all of it was at the rockers.

I need to read the book you are. I want to see what the book says. I understand what you are trying to gain. I even did an external feed to the rockers and until I corrected the oil timing to the rods, I kept killing bearings. Then I undid the the external feed to the rockers because it was a bit of a PITA and didn't have bearing or rocker issues.
In the opinion of the authors of the book the stock rocker system is very restrictive and is not a steady continuous supply. It claim that oil only flows when the timed hole in the 2&4 cam journals are line up which most of the time they are not.
What I like most about this modification is that all five main and all five cam bearings oil exactly the same way.