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As you can see from my list, I like playing multi-class warlocks. So I've played some that could cast aid/mage armour with their Pact Magic slots. Why would they cast those spells with slots they regain after an hour? If you have to ask, you're not paying attention. : )

I agree with all that. It may be to no avail. It may be that you use both your slots and then get attacked before you can rest (hopefully not by a [collective noun] of grudge tarrasques!). That's the rational risk/reward you're calculating. It's up to the player, not the DM, how the PC casts...

In the list of six characters I gave you, ALL had more than two warlock levels, and four out of six intended to get more warlock levels as they level up. One of the two that won't is because they are already 20th level and can't get more levels of anything! If she could then she'd go all warlock...

If you think that playing a rational warlock is the equivalent of playing an idiot wizard then we fundamentally disagree about warlocks! Who says I ignore my patron? What happens is that my patron has more important things on its plate than micromanaging my breakfast, and they actively applaud...

My patrons interact in rational ways according to their own personalities. I've yet to have one who micromanaged my breakfast, or who forbade me from making rational decisions to use my abilities and the laws of the universe to my own advantage.

Pulls back and releases slide, loading a bullet from the magazine to the firing chamber. Removes magazine. Loads another bullet. Re-inserts magazine DRILL SGT: Private! Why are you gaming the system?

What's the 'unexpected bill' for being a fighter?

Yeah, you are being a horrible DM, because you are assuming base motives for players and that horrible assumption is based merely on their choice of class. TLDR: "merely choosing to play a warlock demonstrates that the player is dishonest". That assumption is truly horrible.

I create my own PC's fluff while obeying the rules. Each class starts with three examples of the class in a brief description. These are just examples, not role-playing shackles disallowing your own character ideas. My rogues don't feel compelled to steal from their own party, and rarely steal...

From my own file of 5e character sheets:- Pal 2/War 3 Ftr 1/War 9 War 5/Sor 2 Pal 6/War 14 Bar 3/War 11 War 3 The last one, currently being played from 1st, is my very first warlock who intends to rely on eldritch blast instead of fighting in melee.

If you have spells which last 8 or 24 hours or such like, and you regain slots on a short rest, it is entirely rational to cast them and then rest to regain your slots when you know you are going adventuring! It's as sensible as a soldier pre-loading their magazines with bullets instead of...

I would not eat a talking chicken! Talking chickens are too valuable!

That statement contradicts itself. An unexpected bill IS a 'gotcha'! The costs of playing a warlock are that they gain the abilities of a warlock instead of the abilities they would have gained if they chose another class. That's it. In my printing of the 5e PHB there is nothing that reads...

I DM/play with these principles:- 1) The DM sets the character creation parameters, and designs and plays the NPCs. 2) The player designs their own PC according to the parameters, and plays them however they want. 3) The universe obeys its own laws. NPCs react realistically.

Really? The warlock is not a very popular class in your games? I wonder why? Helldritch: Okay guys, what classes are you all playing for my upcoming campaign entitled, 'The Totally Fair Campaign'? Player 1: Cleric. Helldritch: Cool! Every party needs one, am I right? Player 2: Fighter...

I never bother trying to make up a stupid story as to why I'm acting rationally. I hex whatever creature is about to be breakfast, not as some made-up ritual but because a.) I need to eat today, b.) because I want to cast both hex and aid, then rest to recover those slots before adventuring...

Every living creature in the world 'games the system! In real life and in our fantasy worlds, creatures are in an environment where there are laws of nature/physics/magic. Things work like they work. Creatures act within their environment, and in the interactions some behaviours are more likely...

I think the crux of the problem is that we fundamentally disagree on what constitutes 'obeying the rules of the game' and what constitutes 'gaming the system'. How can we objectively determine which is which? Is it even possible?

Sure, and both sides are acting equally. Have you not noticed the amount of DMs here who assume that I am a bad, disruptive munchkin based merely on my choice of target, and would kick me out of their games on that basis? As much as I'd walk out of their's for being blatantly inconsistent and...

You've had some bad player experiences. So have I. I've had some bad DM experiences. Perhaps you have too. It is the nature of the Internet that extreme sides are taken and held to, when in all probability in real life we would have no problem with each other, even at the table. My action is...