What are you optimizing in character design?

[Max_Killjoy]

Or, maybe we just think you're wrong because you're obviously wrong and nothing you say has even a remote foundation in reality. We have plenty of meaningful discussions, but frankly they become a lot less meaningful when you squeal about how the terrible optimisers are ruining everything and we have to explain for the 150624656374573th time that no, calm down, they're not.

Optimizers tend to know the rules fairly well.

Any player who knows the rules really well is a threat to you-know-whose ability to manipulate and abuse his players.

Therefore, optimizers are "bad".