I've written up about two responses to this, but both amounted to feeding the troll. I'll just say - if you want an actual discussion, then post with points, topics for discuss, or otherwise reasonable conversation. Making snide remarks accomplishes nothing.

Ultimately...yeah, we've done it. It worked out pretty reasonably at the time, and thieves didn't drop off the face of the planet when that was the case. Players asked, and convinced Immortals at the time to make it detailed out. Am I against how it's done now? No, but we're also comparing a classes' near entire skill set vs. entirely optional bonuses of edges.