How do you define (meaningful) choice?

[Shurrikhan]

I think we can use SHB BRD as a good example of why that might not be a great idea, what with Troubadour's mitigation effect type being based on which song you were in at the time

Those are still pretty different, though, in that you could vary song order, and potentially skip ahead at cost only to personal DPS back then, to have exactly what you wanted at a precise moment, while Cards would remain RNG and you wouldn't want to blow your all Redraws on them just to get something functional before its' too late.

(Food for thought: Though, at the same time, had that Troubadour design been added during an earlier approach to songs without CDs... it would have been basically fine. Still not interesting enough to be worth the annoyance to many players, but basically alright.)