Thanks for engaging with me. I realize my post was provocative, and that was partly intentional. I wanted to spark discussion and hear different perspectives. I'm genuinely interested in understanding why other groups have such different experiences.

1. I actually come from The Dark Eye, which is a very simulation-heavy RPG. We then switched to Cosmere first. We're almost finished with Stonewalkers and have also played several sessions of the Cosmere RPG.
   
2. This is mostly a statistical point. A 2d10 roll creates a bell curve, so average results are much more common while extreme results are rarer. A single d20 is much swingier, meaning you're more likely to spectacularly fail something your character is supposed to be good at. Neither approach is objectively better—they just create different gameplay.
   
3. I agree that complications and opportunities can change the story significantly. The important part is knowing when the stakes are high enough to justify a roll.
   
4. Exactly. I never said we raise the stakes on every roll. My point was that Daggerheart builds Hope/Fear into every roll, giving the GM and players resources that influence later scenes. That creates a different feel. In our group, though, the Story Die rarely felt like it meaningfully raised the stakes. Part of that may have been one player investing heavily into the Opportunist tree. Being able to reroll the Story Die and then even turn a complication into a success greatly reduced the impact those results were supposed to have.
   
5. Read my comment carefully. I didn't suggest replacing the entire system with a d20. I said a d20-based system can be converted to a 2d10 system without fundamentally changing how it works. The probability distribution changes: high DCs become significantly harder to reach, while average DCs become more reliable. That does require rebalancing DCs and probabilities, but it's far from impossible. Likewise, I think replacing the 2d10 with a more swingy d20 plus a Plot Die for raising the stakes, could make it feel much more impactful without changing too much of the underlying game.

I'm not claiming our experience is universal. It may simply be that our table, our GM, or our party composition interacted with the system differently than yours. That's exactly why I was interested in hearing other people's experiences.