On the Removal of Positionals

[W00by]

I don't understand why positionals, which are easier to score and have a much smaller penalty when you miss them, invoke such ire.

My tinfoil hat theory is that melees generally have more popular class fantasies (dual wielding rogues, scythe wielding reapers, katana wielding samurai and famous final fantasy dragoons) and therefore larger casual audiences to complain about positionals. Or perhaps it's because casual audiences just bounce off of casters like BLM entirely, but feel "close enough" to good at melee since the loss is, indeed, so small in comparison. SMN is really popular, after all, and it doesn't have that barrier to entry. I have no way to confirm or deny though.

Either way, I agree that losing casts is overall a lot more punishing than positionals, so it is a little strange that people complain about it so much!