I am sure this is exactly how all the regulatory groups in congress that people hate so much feel when enacting things 'for our own good.' Meet the new boss (some millennial that feels superior because they know what gulpgruntwebpacknpm are), same as the old boss.
No, you have to have enough members in your party to surround him before speaking to him and then remove them from your party. So neutral NPCs are surrounding him. He will just kill skeletons. But you deserve whatever is coming to you if you kill Drizzt just for some swords.
Carpenter here. Metaphors suck and are almost always deceptive ways to reinforce a point. Someone would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver on finish screws where precise movements and protection of the surface area is important. You would be fired immediately.