I see the biggest impact of conflating these sentiments in players who are new to the format, and I wonder how many bounce off Commander with a negative impression as a result
Rather, his high lore value means that players can get a lot of lore across multiple turns before he is eventually banished
In that sense, discard decks may use both strictly discarding effects and exile-from-hand effects
Mystic Reflection lets you pick a nonlegendary creature (under anybody's control), and have the next creature (or creatures, if more than one enters at once) enter as copies of it instead
They did the opposite in the very next set
Hitting for one is weak but better than nothing and likely to get through and nibbling loyalty off planeswalkers is pretty good, when equipment comes into the picture however flying becomes outstanding and the low power far less relevant