steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
Oh, right. I forget if one isn't "unique" then they can't possibly have an identity. Yes, yes. Everyone is "special." All tiktok and youtube channels are created equal/matter.Because most people view flavor as uniqueness, not adaptability.
By your standard, the food most with the most identity is white bread. Think of all the stuff you can make with it! Sandwiches, toast, stuffing! You know what doesn't have identity? Mac and cheese. Oh sure, you can toss bacon or tomatoes on it, but you only can ever make Mac and cheese with it. Given a choice, people will choose white bread over Mac and cheese for dinner, right?
Well, no. Your metaphor nicely sums up why there is a Fighter (white bread) and a Paladin (mac n cheese) as separate classes, however.
The White bread can be made into many many different things. But it can never be turned into Mac n cheese. The mac n' cheese is something fundamentally different...i.e. needs to be its own class. It can have a few different flavors. Be done different ways. Use different pastas. Different assortments of cheeses. Add toppings. But never, can be nearly as many different things as the white bread and will always still be mac n' cheese.
Both have their own identities. I will maintain, and you seem to illustrate well, the white bread's is larger (covers more ground), than the mac n' cheese.