Point was, to Tuco, that that thing that you're saying? It doesn't actually happen. If you look to PnP, there are armies of people on both sides who prefer point buy, or rolling. One is not unanimously 'better' than the other, otherwise there wouldn't be that constant debate. Put that in a video game and the same thing will happen: there will be people who swear by point buy, and people who swear by rolling, and as long as they're both available, folks will generally be happy. If one was "unquestionably superior under any metric", then that would not happen. It does. I know at least three people personally who always use standard array or point buy, and who never roll (even in video games), for various personal reasons of choice or preference, while others at our tables always roll, for their own reasons and preferences. I don't mean to be aggressive, but the picture you're painting is simply not accurate to reality.
No-one ever *Actually* discriminates, complains or otherwise denigrates anyone for using one or the other, as long as there's table agreement. The idea that someone would be considered to have a low tier, gimped or poor character purely for using one system over the other is entirely fallacious, at least in my experience.
I'll add... No, I personally suspect that you would NOT be fine with it if there was a limit on rerolls, Tuco. You would, I suspect, because I respect that you are quick to see the issues inherent in systems, probably be the first one to point out that it didn't solve the perceived problem, because it was character generation and a player could just back out of it when they ran out or rerolls, and come back in for a fresh set and keep rolling.
Here's a question for you: If they went the full Solasta, and gave you points, array, rolling and direct setting (allowing you to simply set each of your sores to any value between 3 and 18), which would YOU use? You make it sound as though you'd feel obliged, even *compelled* to choose setting, and set all of your stats to 18 for everything all the time, because that would be the mechanically superior choice... and, for the supposition that 'everyone else' will 'leverage the exploit' to create 'superior' characters and you not wanting to be left behind with a lesser choice, you would do it and be unhappy about doing so... Is that incorrect? If so, what would you do? I am legitimately curious about this, and speak with good intentions - I want to understand where you stand on that spectrum of limits.
