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I think everyone in our current game (level 12) has picked it up. But we built fresh paragon characters after the end of our last campaign, so Expertise could be built into feat choices from day 1. If we were leveling up our old characters, I can see some of us saving it for later since...

No Zelazny?

I think that designers tend to agree with you. The NPC writeups in several adventures I've seen seem considerably more 'full.' Not necessarily in terms of powers, but also in feat based abilities not available to by the book NPCs.

A sorcerer PP in AP allows for a 16-20 crit range, but only on an AP attack. Disciple of Caiphon gives 18-20 with radiant powers, but requires warlock. There are also specific powers that grant an 18-20 range for a limited time, like Biting Volley (ranger 7), Sunder Armor (warlord 7), and some...

Players make all kinds of decisions about their characters that wouldn't be choices that an person in the game world could reasonably make. Metagaming can be a problem. OTOH, it also prevents problems - "but that's what my character would do" isn't a good excuse for ruining other players'...

Why does having the player make choices imply the character must also know those choices?

No. Preexisting monsters with a class template applied are elite. An NPC with just a class is a normal monster of her level. For example, a tiefling sorcerer 9 is a normal level 9 monster. A succubus (level 9) with the sorcerer template has both sorcerer and succubus powers, thus making her...

A lot of metallic dragons were good only by the alignment entry and not by described behavior. I seem to recall some of them kidnapping people for their amusement...

Why not start with Cleric Multiclass instead of skill training? It gets you religion either way, plus an emergency heal.

As opposed to a tactical warlord granting INT+1 to attack and INT mod to damage on a whole bunch of AoEs? While most likely having either a higher attack stat or higher secondary stat since they don't really need CHA.

Prismatic Burst beats out Glyph of Radiance which is 4 levels higher. None of the Invoker 17s have something like Crushing Titan's Fist, which kills mobility even on a miss.

Nothing. But nothing prevents all the attacks from being on one target either. And considering how much damage it can do a single target, it's usually pretty dumb not to just shred one guy.

There's also The Hypertext d20 SRD (v3.5 d20 System Reference Document) :: d20srd.org for getting 3.5 rules for free.

Our group generally just uses Elites as bosses instead of solos. A solo by itself hasn't worked out that well, and our group often has only 4 players, so there's less room to add other things to the solo.

I've found Stand the Fallen to be good as well, especially since tactical lords tend to be short on other healing effects.

Because most fights aren't against solos, so there's usually 5 or so enemies. Hence hitting most them can be pretty good.

Non combat charm type effects tend to Diplomacy/Bluff bonuses, rerolls, or other skill challenge affecting powers (your skills counts as an additional success, or whatever).

Yes, I do. Being the guy who rolls F/RT while (not) contributing with a short bow was lame. And I don't think fighters have lost anything; Come and Get It is THE defining defender power.

IIRC, it says +1, not +1 per target.

Paragon. Heroic seems hamstrung by its limited access to powers. Having only 1 or 2 encounter powers means resorting to at wills in short order, and limits combinations within the character.