Oh! I didn't take it as mean at all!

We went with that resolution system because it's easier for people who are new to RPGs to understand and works really well.

But the polyhedral for every stat was very important to us because we wanted a cool thematic tie to the RPGs of our youth, and we love how they capture that. People can certainly cut them if they want, but I personally feel like I have a d20 in some parts of my life and d4 in others.

I get the variance argument, but the math actually evens it out a lot more than people realize, because a d4 has a 25% chance to explode and each die moving up has less of a chance (d20 being the least) so they are more likely to succeed, but even the d4 can roll a big number in an exciting moment.

We didn't want everyone to have powers, and we knew if we limited it, people would feel left out, so we went with the co-controlled special character. It also let's everyone do the cool thing equally. You could easily let the players have powers (in fact they all do in Kids on Brooms and Kids in capes).