Wow... not to hijack the thread or anything, but people are still talking about this? Good lord, it's barely even relevant anymore. At best this started out as a sub-argument in the astoundingly pointless "melee vs brawl" threads, now it's just.... well... pointless chatter. This is brawl tactical discussion, and all I've ever really seen in this thread since its creation is mostly talk of character proportions of brawl compared to melee, which at best, belongs in brawl character discussion.
All of these threads taper off with a "Well you've got your opinion and I have mine" stalemate since neither side has anything terribly concrete, and most of the steam being thrown around is just fueled by bias. There's not going to be a consensus on the issue, if you're discussing it just to discuss it, then treat it like that, but if you wanna rant on the subject because of a vendetta, bias, or an inability to yield your own opinion , you've gotta realize that this issue will *not* be concluded on opinion, hell, it wouldn't even be concluded by fact at this point. It's fairly irrelevant, and completely pointless, to continue argument on this subject, but if people *must* go on with it, I'd rather this thread be moved out of Brawl Tactical Discussion, since it has nothing to do with the subject of tactics in Brawl.