Okay, so Bugbear's argument appears to be:

1) Swordmages or Fighter/Mage multiclass characters or archetypes exist.

2) "Most players" prefer these to regular Fighters because they do more than just hit for damage.

3) Therefore, why should mundane Fighters even still exist in the setting? And therefore, why should mundane anything still exist in the setting?


The third point is where he is jumping the shark, even considering that many people in the thread are also disagreeing with the second point.

The assertion that players preferring non-mundane characters (which again, many people are challenging) should lead to a sweeping change to the general D&D-style campaign setting is a bit ridiculous. He's essentially arguing for the Tippy-verse, where everyone is magic because obviously everyone would want to be magic, and therefore we can use magic to raise the quality of life of everyone from the medieval to modern or futuristic levels of security and convenience.



I'm going to go out on a limb and say that WotC, who is actually able to poll gamers and study focus groups and perform market research, probably has a better idea of what "most gamers" want than Bugbear does.