What even is armor proficiency?

[Tanarii]

focus on how it ruins things and might even lead them performing poorly even though there isn't a real reason it should.

Protective gear absolutely ruins performance in many sports, including fighting.

It's just that in many (but not all) sports and definitely in fighting, the benefits of not being badly wounded when things inevitably go wrong heavily outweigh the loss of performance.

But that can break down quickly if it starts to make things far more likely to go wrong in the first place, without significantly offsetting the problems when things go wrong.

Spoiler: it's a cost benefit thing

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I rock climb. Wearing a helmet is stupid and more dangerous than not wearing one. It makes climbing much hard and makes you very likely to get pulled off the rock and provides almost no benefit ... right up until you're climbing in a place with lots of loose rock. Really, the solution isn't don't climb in those places, not wear a helmet. But if you do, wear a damn helmet. Despite it being MORE dangerous to do so, outdoor instruction places inevitably have their students wear a helmet in places with no loose rock. Because some people think protective gear is automatically safer.