Game balance isn't real. Here's why

Keits made a video called "Game Balance Isn't Real," and I had to respond. He's a developer who actually shipped balance patches on Killer Instinct, so when he says balance isn't something you do but a feeling you chase, he's speaking from the dev side of the glass. What got me is how close his thinking lands to what I've been saying on stream for years: most of the time, the data and the players swearing a game is broken are both wrong, and the context behind the numbers matters more than the numbers. Keits and I don't agree on everything, but he looks at game design differently than almost a