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The key is that mutations have been largely independent of the leveling mechanics, at least from a developmental balancing perspective. Sure, you get an extra d6 disintegration damage per level, but it started out at 20d6.
Good question!
The most real world land monsters I can think of are tigers (800 pounds of teeth, claws and fury), bull elephants (10000 pounds of just fury) and hippos (split the difference). So if you put a bullette in that same category, I am okay with maybe reintroducing DR for the monsters...
I'm not sure it would do WotC any good, but it would be kind of cool if they let their design team run wild on something. I vote for a new version of Alternity (not the craptacular version recently produced). Give me back Star*Drive and Dark*Matter.
Armor is a response to potential threat. Just because shark divers wear chainmail doesn't mean it is in common use today. If that guy was fighting in a war where the enemy had pointy sticks instead of guns, it only speaks to that war, not 1800s tech.
I was referring specifically to your assessment of The Boys' writing. It has some of the best written complex characters in current genre fiction, miles better than its source material.
I have not seen any of the other shows you mentioned except RoP, which I like even if it is not Tolkien.