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>Even if they have flat damage reduction, not getting hit at all is effectively the same thing, including robbing your poor cleric girl of much needed EXP.
I agree armors are bad but this is an odd argument. Armors' single genuinely redeeming trait is their fuckoff defense stat. Defense is after all a member of the holy trinity of FE stats: str, spd, def. It's a seriously important and good stat that you can almost never have too much of, except in the few games where enemies won't attack at 0 damage.

Oswin is also kinda decent. But he's decent in spite of his class, and still not top tier.
The one time I like armors is in ironman relays. Variance and unpredictability are extremely high in an ironman shared among multiple players of different skill levels. Armors serve as a sort of stalwart or dependable factor, and Oswin was pretty consistent in the FE7 relays.
This is only in relays, again. In a personal ironman, just use cavs and don't suck lol