Everyone loves dice pools because knowing odds and attempting to make informed decisions is specifically the domain of adults.
They just wanna roll handfuls of dice and do arithmetic over and over again because it reminds them of remedial math in school. Or they want to convert a bunch of wacky symbols into meaning because it reminds them of puzzles on the back of cereal boxes when they were young.
In reality, the binary of pass or fail that exists with one die is muddied by the inclusion of other dice. Both the risk is obfuscated and mitigated in die pool systems, they exist to hide that your chances of success has dramatically gone up. Then we're talking about "successes". And at that point you've made a simple roll something so unnecessarily convoluted that it no longer resembles it's former self. And the end result becomes far more often something that isn't success or failure, but some weird half-measure in between. Proponents have the audacity to believe this is a "good thing". My response has always been... what are you a retard?
None of this is necessary for the outcome of picking a lock or shooting a stormtrooper. But at least it takes extra time to discern what the fuck happened after you roll. Wait, no, that's another bad thing. I guess there is no upside to adding dice and programmed systemic "nuance" to a resolution method.
It's all basic math homework or hope, faith, and fortune-telling versus an understanding of risk and god-be-damned science.
Dice pools are for children. Real men roll a die and understand the risk before doing it.
