Piston pin offset "controversy"

I think this came about back in the day as "an old hot rodder trick". If you had factory domes you had to flip from bank to bank. If you had flat tops with no valve relief, you could theoretically just turn the piston around in the bore. But what if you had pressed pins? Just switch from side to side, i.e. 1 for 2, 3 for 4, etc. Just like the dome situation. Pistons had/have an offset pin to avoid alot of noise on cold start up. I did this with a stock bottom end 1973 318. I had enough other stuff done to it that I can't definitively say that it really did anything. The 302 heads, aluminum single plane, and the old school purple cam probably had more to do with it than the damn pistons turned around!