Quote Originally Posted by Psyren View Post
Yet again - I think you're projecting some kind of bad GMing experience onto this conversation that has no alignment with my viewpoint
Your viewpoint, presumably, aligns with the OP. Who expressed the idea that utility options don't matter because the GM will just provide a solution anyway, so the only thing that matters is combat efficacy.

If that's not the case, not sure why you're expressing disagreement with my assertion that this would be poor GMing.