No one likes perm death. They just reload when anyone dies so who cares?
If you're just going to reset any time someone dies you should just play casual.
The point of classic isn't doing ironman runs. It's having to pass a chapter without losing a unit.
No that is literally the point of classic otherwise the game would just hand you a game over as soon as a unit died.
There's zero difference in difficulty between playing "normal" and resetting when a unit dies and playing "classic" and resetting when a unit dies.
You're like objectively wrong.
Here is something you can do in casual. Throw all your units at a boss in order to get them xp or to wear down the enemy's weapon. There is no penalty for doing this.
That is something you cannot do in Classic. Like, do you people even think about things or do you just spout off garbage? Playing on Lunatic is much harder if you're playing not to lose anyone than if you're willing to sacrifice characters. Classic makes you value your pieces, whether you are resetting or not. Because you're either
A. Trying not to reset or B. Trying to keep your characters
In Casual, you need not value your characters. Because your characters play under different rules than your enemies do.
If you like Casual, then w/e, the game is still fun. But there's this weird counter culture where people playing on easy kid mode act like they're not playing on easy kid mode.
It's really weird how Casual mode folks want to act like there's no difference. I don't really care if other people want to play on Casual, but at least don't fool yourself that it's the same exact thing if you soft reset on unit death. ---