A great and well written post, as usual.
But I have to admit that throwing doesn't bother me at all. It's part of these silly things I'll never use and, more important, that does not have any consequences when I'm playing.
It's one of those silly things that rewards the player way too much, to the point that it is litteraly ridiculous. The mechanic itself doesn't make any sense... So is the reward.
I try to avoid things that makes no sense and I'm not punished if I don't throw, exactly like I'm not if I don't use barrelmancy, if I don't steal every merchants, if I don't exploit flaming sphere and so on. The game's difficulty remains "normal". Choices for fun, even if I personnaly don't find it fun at all...
Its more of a problem in multiplayer. I don't like having to have the same conversations with other players about not abusing dumb mechanics like this.
Granted - its kind of a litmus test for me about who makes it into my friends list and who doesn't. I don't put trash players on there. But Larian is creating a problem for groups who would like to stick to people using more legitimate tactics instead of having a single player ruin the fun with this sort of thing.
They always think they are clever too, like we should pat them on the back for being terrible.
Additionally this will create problems for DM's down the line who don't want to see this nonsense.
Granted somebody will fix it with a mod but it would be really unfortunate if they don't see the problem and get rid of it before somebody else has to fix it.
Larian has moved into a larger world, and I want to encourage them to put stuff like this behind them. It doesn't serve anymore.
