You could use some chill. I'm taking personal comments as misplaced.
"So, you simply prefer people to say "5e is perfectly balanced, we should use this" with no context? Amazing. "
1)I prefer them to say how they defined themselves as a player, what they want, and why. Three things. No in-game data will give you this explicitely. You can get a profile, what feature they use and you have to figure out why.
2)At no point a user explaining to me he wants a feature but don't think it makes sense because others won't like it because [insert reason] based on his personal experience is to be dissmised[Aka Dev /DM experience]. But the 2nd part of his opinion isn't exactly the center of the discussion. What matters it's he's a DM + Software Dev + Plays X hours a day paired with #1 above.
Your entire paragraph though was aimed at re-centering the entire discussion about the 2nd point. And even more, delving into the details of it(That's how it felt when I was reading it). You're effectively harming yourself in the process in my opinion.
Small disclaimer:
I was talking about something a bit different in my posts on this page, I was referring more to PR in the context of those articles and the forum. Less than the actual impact of the forum on decision making.
You could also be less lazy about your replies and put a little bit more thought into your responses, it isn't that hard.
Your entire spiel is a misunderstanding, most likely due to the lack of reading comprehension that stems from laziness that or English isn't your primary language but it's not like my Chinese or Russian is decent either so we'll make due:
Your misunderstanding is to look at any of these discussions as though they are subjects; most of the discussion if not all of it is at the design/implementation/architectural level so they are speaking to you as peers. In a matter of fact, if you took your line of thinking and applied it to what other people are saying on this thread it wouldn't make sense.
In a matter of fact you recognize this by alluding to what I am doing as Larian's job(again, since when is critical thinking and removal of bias someone else's job), it's a good warning sign that contextually you're off the mark.
By removing yourself from this context and saying that we're all users and should only define things by player, what they want, and why then placing yourself as the observer you're pretty much doing what you accused me which is Larian's job. So, that doesn't really fit either.
The bottom line is what I wrote earlier which is that you mistake the dialog I am having with my interlocutors can be understood at subject-observer level. This is why you're confused and maybe you're just poor at context switching and shouldn't throw yourself into a conversation with the amount of laziness you've displayed.
Like if you actually look at the conversations they don't make sense with the approach you have. You're looking for a survey or a short profile, as evidence from
I prefer them to say how they defined themselves as a player, what they want, and why. Three things.
in a living discussion. You've completely mismatched what was written.
