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I have advocated this. Beyond that, 5e variants like Level Up provide much more choice within the class system, so two characters with the same class and level can be quite different.

Makes sense. People don't realize just how valuable post-grad studies really are.

Well, in my games the fiction has priority over the rules (which IMO should adjust to fit it), and I like lots of prep anyways.

Since when do D&D characters of any level demonstrate MCU hulk/thor-esc physical capability?

Would be easy enough to homebrew I think.

I appreciate and would implement the simulationist reasons, but I don't think it would be completely worthless or that such issues couldn't possibly be worked around, so I say go for it! PCs can do what they want (to the limits of their own abilities) in my games anyway.

Heard of it, but know very little about it.

That first concern is still kinda about hit points, to be fair. The second one is quite valid, which is why training time within the setting has more of a place in my ideal play, not to mention slower leveling in any case. However, I do think active adventuring leads to faster advancement in...

I generally prefer to work from the other direction (adjust the mechanics to fit the fiction).

Like I said, I'm working on the "gun to your head" issue. I worked through design on this with a buddy of mine for a while, but an unrelated falling out has left me trying to finish the work on my own.

I've never played in (that I know of) or run a game in which improvisation on the GM side is the primary generator of play. It's always there in an RPG, of course, but for my games prep is more important.

I actually feel it is or can potentially emulate any or all of these.

Sure, but I like possibility existing of it going the other way.

Yeah, you never want to make a ruling like that in the moment. Just take the hit as the GM and move on.

They put them on weapons too.

I am fond of the career system. And the level of abstraction in the class system isn't ideal for sim, but in actual play with human beings sometimes compromises are made. It doesn't mean you can't treat it as sim, because it is in fact simulating something. It's just perhaps not the most...

To be fair, if there's a diagetic reason the character doesn't fear crossbows then it absolutely is a sim agenda. For other uses, I think adjusting the rules for "gun to your head" situations can help. I've been working on stuff.

Did you? It was a very long post full of quotes from someone whose opinions actively make me angry, so I admit I skimmed it. Sorry.

That's a neat idea, and IMO probably a better way to organize play such that it can be discussed with less acrimony.

How is that not about hit points? Your examples are predicated on how hit points work.