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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9149112" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Let's try this again.You like to say that when you are advocating for something, you are speaking for "the community."In my experience, this is not what "the community" is demanding. Imagine you have people watching Critical Role, and they want to play D&D. Do you think that they are looking to get advanced math lessons in the PHB?Or you have a typical mixed table, the kind where one player doesn't remember that his fighter has second wind, and another is mostly there for the pizza. Do they want the math?Does someone who is "all into Strixhaven" really want to look at the underlying mathematical assumptions of BA and advantage? Perhaps work a little with stats to ensure that they understand the distinction between advantage and a "mere" + to a roll?You have strong preferences, and that's great! But the biggest mistake most people make is that they assume that their preferences are necessarily widely shared. One of the things 5e explicitly did is to de-emphasize the importance of the math and the need to optimize; for some people, that's frustrating. For many people, that's not a terrible thing. You can still optimize, and many people do. But it's no longer a requirement to either understand the math, or to keep on the treadmill of optimization. Again, not a bug, but a feature.</blockquote>