Larian really can't help themselves can they? It's almost compulsive their endless fiddling and finding ways to embellish, undo or change things from a system with an established rule set; to put their OTT stamp on almost everything.

Are martial classes considered boring because they don't shoot fire out of their arses (in the same way Sven stated that players found the Bless spell boring and that players wanted fireworks everywhere)? I just don't get the need to give them all sorts of fancy homebrew abilities, especially at low levels. Where is the sense of progression if all the candy is handed out almost instantly and frequently?