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After limpers one can always choose the amount one wants to raise, no need to limp after limpers (though weak kickers can still be played carefully by limping, but raising one or two can be the better move than playing against them and the blinds with a pay them hand). AK when the first one in from any position should come out raising if it has any chance of being called by hands it dominates. The weaker slick hands could open-raise less or they could limp, and as the position gets better one can think e.g. an AQ being an AK. It does make sense to limp with slick hands that simply do not steal the blinds often enough and are more often than not dominated when they get cold called/3-bet. One though can't limp with them if one gets raised like half the time, but other than that it's cheap to limp at NL holdem. When the game has loose players limit holdem is the easier game as one is getting the top pair as the nuts vs. all kinds of weak hands (that's harder to make so at nl and they get bigger compensations when they hit their junk stronger), also the blinds may call so loose that the KT is the nuts when it would be in a hard situation even when limped at nl as it's always possible someone, e.g. the BB, has a better kicker and it costs too much money and one gets lesser compensations when one wins (wins a small pot, loses a bigger one, so this is nl).