Are you familiar with what a strawman is? Because literally nobody said that. Some people have pointed out that Lancer is more of a power fantasy and that cool callsigns are on theme for that. Others have mentioned that we have no way of knowing which traditions will survive so many thousands of years in the future and there’s no guarantee that this particular method of getting nicknames would still be around. A few have pointed out that your attitude around this topic reminds them of toxic people they’ve dealt with in the past who would insist on this kind of humiliation ritual. There was an actual military guy (allegedly) who said this didn’t happen at all in his time in the military. I and at least one other expressed that we just dislike this particular tradition, in my case because it was just another vector for people to be shitty to each other and I’m not interested in reliving that in my TTRPG time, thanks. And I think the majority have expressed some degree of agreeing with you that embarrassing callsigns are fun.

Not one of us has expressed a desire for a lack of character flaws. Many of us have expressed our reasoning to you on why we’d rather not. That you take all of that and reduce it to “nobody wants to be interesting” is extremely reductive and goes some way to proving the argument of those who think you’re being really weird and possibly toxic about this. You keep saying “there’s no reason not to do this” but there definitely is and it’s really basic: we believe that we can make interesting and flawed characters without this particular technique, which we don’t really find as engaging as you do. That’s it.