What triggers some people about Pathfinder?

[Willie the Duck]

There is a massive difference between saying "I don't agree with what you've said about the game" and saying "you just don't get the game or the underlying logic". Especially given that the mechanics do work in the way you describe and the issue is with the way you're spinning it, such as presenting brilliant energy swords as just some random thing that comes out of nowhere instead of being a pretty rare and very expensive weapon enchantment.

I didn't say you didn't get anything. I was asking if that's what you thought others were doing (not getting things), based on your comment, "the underlying logic is fairly simple."

I'm spinning it? What are you talking about? I said nothing about anything coming out of nowhere. It's an example. An example of a spot where the game gets fiddly. Different ACs in general, much less brilliant energy, are simply an example of fiddly-detail numbers, which was germane to the discussion at hand when I made it.