Don Durito
Hero
What is the purpose of this? If you find the conversation tiresome then you are not compelled to contribute to it.This really seems like the crux of it, to me--the sense that D&D is just essentially perfect as is, and any retrograde design elements or major gaps in its ruleset are actually very good, smart, and intentional, and also who needs power windows in your car when you have these awesome cranks for rolling down the window by hand?
Good faith discussion requires the charitable reading. This emphatically is not.