Loramin continually fails to consider the bigger elephant in the room than "something about the code is different", the hardware and bandwith was so inferior and bogged down that charming was a deathwish. Lagspikes were a complete fact of life for nearly everyone. Servers weren't as inherently stable and reliable themselves. Your ISP wasn't as stable and reliable.
Most people's machines struggled to run the graphics and had shit ping by even the worst P99 standards, reacting to a charm break even without weapons and haste would be swift oblivion and your groups deaths likely next. Players were incredibly risk averse and demanded the same of their party.
Then along came Luclin >>> PoP and everyone was forced to upgrade their PC's more, and better broadband became more the norm across the country. Next thing you know charming was on the menu as well as the advent of widespread bard swarming.
GINA is also a massive advantage we didn't have then. Even if channeling or some other aspect of P99 is a bit overpowered that's not the biggest reason for the dearth of charm back in the old days.
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