OP's post is very clear about this particular issue - the game completely discourages any strategy that deviates from a particular path, there is an obvious stronger choice.
Do a quick test (like several people have already done before) - save right before any particular fight (once for every level/power spike if you want precise results) and then respec before doing those fights, testing builds. The difference is massive when stats are properly alocated.
By the way, no one ever said wits should be the main stat (other than your mention of it of course). It might not even be that bad of a stat (and only be a collateral effect) if other things got fixed (less streamlined stats, different initiative system,
No you don't get it
I understand power gaming works.
What I don't see, is a case why it matters, or why things should change.
If the design document for classic mode states: "any 4 chucklefucks can beat the game as long as they have a modicum of intelligence". Then what needs to change.
There's no context for issues, no solutions, no consideration for working as intended.
If I understood half the points being made and could understand them, I would suggest better wording. As it stands,I can't fully comprehend the first one
Your views differ and that's fine, but reading through your posts I feel like you are not fully considering what is being said. Your initial posts about the list say that the points made are unclear and uneducated. I would disagree as all of the them made perfect sense to me as they were issues I experienced while playing. You pointed out surfaces and, while it's not a massive issue, they seem negligible. You don't get crazy fire + poison combos like the original game, and late game, save for oil and spike traps (and holy fire as an undead) their damage is barely worth considering.
In addition, I'm worried this won't stay civil because you don't seem to be considering other arguments. In this case I am talking about your argument with the initiative system. People are saying it's broken because typically initiative is not round robin, it simply is descending order of initiative. But in the case of this game it is reduced to round-robin, save for the one person that goes first. To quote the wiki, "if your 4-man party of allies has an initiative of 44, 43, 42 and 41 respectively, meeting a 4-man group of enemies with an initiative of 4, 3, 2, 1 respectively... the order of taken actions would be: A44, E4, A43, E3, A42, E2, A41, E1."
There is the argument that it's working as intended, but if we step back from that, does it really seem proper that the ally initiative scores shouldn't all be going before the enemy considering they are all at least 10x as great? As for the wits stat? Well I actually agree with you for the most part, however I would say that it could afford to have some more clear advantage as one of the six primary stats.
Finally, you keep insulting OP and his document. As I already said, I think it is clear he put some time and educated thought into the document. Yes, he didn't write a persuasive essay for every point, but that's because most points can be understood by experienced players with just the first line. The other reason I imagine he left it short is so that such a long list is an easy read and will leave room for discussion. He did not propose solutions because I think he would rather we break down the points in here and propose solutions, with the hope that Larian would notice when many people are proposing similar solutions, as opposed to one guy claiming he can fix everything.
I simply ask that you try and give the arguments true consideration. These issues were rather obvious to me, perhaps because of all the time I spent in EA and in the original game. You have made some good counter arguments, while some of your other posts didn't demonstrate more than a glancing attempt to demonstrate the issue, consider the intention, and propose a solution. For example, your last post said "If I understood half the points being made and could understand them, I would suggest better wording. As it stands,I can't fully comprehend the first one."
