True, characters do evolve differently if they get an advanced start.It can be done, sure, and many people do just that. For my part, my feeling is that characters evolve very differently when they get an advanced start. I'm not going to make someone start at 1st level when everyone else is 8th, but when I'm starting a new campaign, I always prefer to start at the beginning, at first level.
You really can't do the "veterans and experts assembled by a patron to do a quest" with level 1s.
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