Occasionally, I will see a critique of a particular character class in 5E that puzzles me.

It will say something like, “Such and such is broken/underpowered/boring because they don’t compare favourably to the other classes, during combat.”

I never read a complaint that the person playing the barbarian character is bored when the thief is locating and disarming traps because the barbarian can’t contribute.

I never read players complaining about how the paladin is a broken class because they are really bad at conning merchants.

Does anyone complain that dwarf fighters are not particularly effective at tracking an elusive creature in the forest and the ranger shouldn’t get all the glory?

Why is it that every class in the game has to be good at combat?