I think this is it - this right here may be the important difference in viewpoint. Not only yours and mine, but of those who argue for the lenient ruling and against it.
Classes were never 'just' the mechanics to me. Each feature with any amount of flavour adds to the character's story and makes me imagine the things about their past it reflects, how they came to posses it, what situations it could've helped them in.
But this is all fair and right. You can have all the reasons of this world to not like something, and the same is for me. It's about having different backgrounds, different preferences and different everything.
If you don't like something is fine. If Larian looks around and decide "this thing isn't liked by enough people, it isn't worth it" is fine. What I can't consider fine is saying "larian shouldn't implement this because I don't like it". It's vastly different.
