"R U TRIGGERED" and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.
I still see vestiges of "le epic bacon" out there but it's mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to "trigger the vegans." Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.
there is room in the system to make a functional character without the half this half that template n onsense
you just have to not exclusively take bad options
"anyone who doesn't do 5d8 at level 2 is clearly exclusively taking bad options"
can you actually do 5d8 at level 2 even that seems like an exaggeration
notice i never specified a system for the fictional scenario you insist on taking apart