I'm mostly going to stay out of this thread, because I rather strongly disagree with a lot of the statements I'm seeing being made, and I'm just not in the mood for the giant fight it'd turn into getting into it, but I wanted to note that there's some conflation of two things going on here.
There's a difference between game balance as an attempt to keep PCs on an approximately similar footing relative to each other, and game balance intended to make sure all fights are of approximately equal difficulty and appropriate for the PCs. You can have either one without the other, and addressing one really has no connection with the other in terms of how you got about it.
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