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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aulirophile" data-source="post: 5457131" data-attributes="member: 86312">Facts?1. Nearly every 4e developer gives out Expertise in their home games, or did pre-essentials. Barring games played specifically for play-testing purposes. You can dig up this info from developer posts on Enworld, the official forums, podcasts, and twitters. A single developer's game is one thing, but nearly all of them? No, it is clear what they think of it.2. When the PHB2 came out they explicitly said they made expertise a feat, even though they thought it was a "math fix", because they wanted everyone to have equal access to it (as opposed to errata'ing the level up chart). Specifically, people mentioned the strange math discrepancy and WoTC's response was "We're aware of the issue, there will be a fix in the PHB2." Which invalidates point #3 of yours, while they have made decisions to relatively small elements, they've never errata'd something as huge as the level up chart. They stuck with their reasoning that it should be a feat, and expanded upon this with the Essentials Expertise feats that make them more interesting. 3. You are wrong about Greg, since he wrote a fair amount of the rules updates. 4. Most of the "Feat Bonus" to hits that are not Expertise have been errata'd to be untyped and reduced to +1, so they are still useful. Now they are nice bonuses you can take in addition to the feat the developers consider mandatory, Expertise.</blockquote>