In every game there are by far the best tactics that can easily spoil the fun if you abuse them.
What is the difference between putting a few barrels on yourself from stacking many skull traps to one shot the boss in BG2?
Or releasing cloudkill into the room from the very edge of the screen? This was by far the most effective tactic in most fights.
Technically, none of these methods were even an exploit.
If you discovered an immortality exploit (as in the older bg) would you use it as it is the most optimal way to play
You are trying to create a false equivalency between an OP 2nd edition DnD spell that could be exploited, and Larian's intentional inclusion of barrelmancy/surface spam/push spam as the primary focus of combat.
It's apples and oranges.
