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Most PCs are built as glass canons. High nova potential, but not enough defense. Great if the goal is to take as many people out with you when you drop, but really terrible if attrition is remotely a concept.

And that finds the crux of my argument. Sure, a DM could have Asmodeus remove a rebellious warlocks powers, but the DM could just have him show up in all his CR 30 glory and slaughter the warlock and anyone who gets in his way just as easily. To me, there is no difference in these two outcomes...

I'm guessing you don't support any small publishers who only sell online or via PDF.

I crossed out the parts I couldn't care less about in the DMG and decided I'd rather have 20 species over subraces (half of them would just be elves anyways)

Exactly

BECMI had 12 wizard and 8 cleric per level (druid got all cleric plus 4 unique druid per level).

No. I have a simple credo about my PCs: I control what they say and do. Not the DM. I dislike abilities that force my PC to act in ways contrary to how they would otherwise (barring literal mind control) and I don't like DMs who threaten to remove my class if I don't behave the way they think I...

My issue is that a cleric (warlock, paladin, druid, ranger, etc) gets a supernatural sugar daddy who the DM can use to bludgeon you with by destroying your character. For example: Fiend patron: warlock! The paladin in your party has insulted me. Kill him! Warlock: what? I won't do that...

You're not the seventh son of a seventh son, you were not born under the dark moon, you aren't part of the ancient bloodline, yada yada yada. Seriously, your convincing me that either there is nobody with unique abilities OR I don't believe you don't allow everything goes. So every assassin...

I'm far better with that sort of give and take over the "do what I say or you lose your class abilities".

The answer is None. So we are arbitrarily punishing some classes and not others. You want to revamp the classes so that every fighter is a vassal for his Lord, every rogue gives a cut to the local thieves guild, or every bard is under contract from her manager, I'll buy the whole God...

What is the obligations for being a sorcerer? A bard? A wizard? Why do those classes get their power duty free? What responsibilities do monks and barbarians have? Why do some classes get micromanaged by the DM and others can thumb their noses and keep their powers.

Add to the fact that their actual bard abilities took 1 minute of prep to use and came with enough caveats and provisos that you would think it was an Act of Congress, you has a class that was far better on paper than in practice. The best trick was to treat them as a slightly beefier magic...

Honestly, I hate having certain classes having "mommy may I" mechanics and not others. If you had it where every class had some way to lose their powers, I'd be ok with it, but the fact Bobby Bard can heal almost as good as Cindy Cleric and she has to walk on eggshells or else sky daddy will...

This was less of a problem in both Basic and 2e, (at least at first) as the PHB or red box was at least internally consistent with itself. The 1e PHB doesn't make it out the gate without telling you to forget things you just read 5 pages ago...

Patron, like deities or other supernatural sugar-parents, work best when there is an explicit expectation between the player and the DM as to the level of micromanaging the entity will do. I don't feel this should be set by the rules. There is interesting stories of rebellious warlocks turning...

Ac fate worse than death

On a related to the OP note, considering how perfectly playable the The Strategic Review bard was, the fact the PHB bard was turned into a disaster of mechanics is a travesty. Most of the other classes in the PHB work fine inside the confines of rest of the game, but bard and monk aren't just...

Clearly you never heard of the famous bard James Brown? That bard had soul, brother...