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Ah yes. The Jack of all trades master of none approach. Well I guess we're the masters of smiting
The full saying is "Jack of all trades but master of none is oftentimes better than a master of one"
In DnD it's certainly true, it's called versatility and the funny thing about paladins is they're still a master of burst damage that also comes with being a master of burst healing.
There's only one more busted class and it's called a cleric who is, surprise surprise, also a frontline caster.
It's silly, but it bothers me when people claim recent revisions to sayings are actually the "complete" forms of sayings. Here's a great write up of the history of the phrase "Jack of all trades": https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508907
The end of the comment has a summary of the revisions over time, and the "ofttimes better than master of one" first appeared in 2007.
Interesting and something I shall ignore anyways as the modern saying is in fact its complete form