Pathfinder, meanwhile, is impossible for most people to lift.

That would depend on how you choose to lift it. Stick it all on an ipad...

Another thing to establish is to have everyone on the same page on when a compel is Fate Point worthy.

For example, there is a guy that is Perpetually Broke and his Resources is 0, this sounds fairly consistent right? But the GM thinks that it is not a worthy Compel since he won't be able to pay for the taxi in the first place with his Resources. Player thinks GM is a dick, GM thinks the player is gaming the system.

Best get everyone on the same page first.

Hopefully there's a slightly overweight Champion of God of Scottish origin that goes, "Yippekiyay, mother----ers!"

Oh, and mortals can retreat rather easily. Have a fight somewhere? You don't need to get far away from the supernatural bad guy, you just have to get somewhere public. If they don't want the mortals to go apeshit on them, they will stop the pursuit.

I assume that you are talking about Pure Mortals when you say "mortal". I disagree with the assertion that Pure Mortals can retreat rather easily. They can retreat easily with their FP fuelled declarations, but they do not and should not have it any easier than a wizard or any of the human looking supernatural folks. Taking it public simply means some guy in a Halloween getup and high on drugs laid the smackdown on your puny mortal ass. Supernats can also have access to the kinds of weapons that mortals can have - the books have faeries with guns. Bringing in the mortal authorities is going nuclear, bringing in mortals is bringing party favors. And the problem with the Internet is separating the wheat from the chaff. Sure, all sorts of material come pouring in, but a lot of crap gets in too and there are trolls. Internet trolls.
My point is that a supernat should be no less able than some Pure Mortal with the same level of skill. Wizards are a special case, in the game world, they hex - that's their drawback. But the Winter Lady used her cell phone just fine.

Regarding the "needlessly high Weapons skill":   Summer decorated him for cutting down three RCV Dukes standing between him and the Red King.  I guess it all depends on ow you define "cut down."

Another thing to note is that the high Weapons skill enables him to take down targets without needing to cast a single spell if he needs to do so. IIRC, the White Court had stuff that enabled them to be immune to spells, I do not doubt that Red Court would have had something similar.

Good aspects and lots of compels is actually good meta gaming.

You just have to be careful if a particular compel is going to cost you more than the FP you earned.

As I read the Compel rules, the more a particular compel isn't going to cost you more than the FP you earned, then it is more likely it is Compel unworthy.

I feel like it's even more important. Or maybe to put it another way: it's good to specialize in what you aren't good at. What I mean by that is, you should have a good idea of your characters blind spots and have some good ways available to compel on them. Since they are areas you are absolutely not good at, you don't have to bother spending any skills on them and just take them head on. In return, you can be brilliant at what you're good at. As long as you and your group understand that sucking at something doesn't have to mean the death of your character, that makes for a natural rise and fall in your story.
Or at least it's that way in theory. I constantly forget to compel myself, though I'm trying to get better at that.

So that means that if I as the GM see that you are likely to not succeed in a course of action, then I won't offer a Compel on that course of action. It is simply just not Compel worthy unless that Compel puts you in an even worse situation that if you had pick up the dice rolled and failed.

It's overpowered, basically, especially for non-spellcasting characters. Add hefty bonuses to your attack rolls, and bypass Catches, all for 1 Refresh.

But you take damage in the old version, to get those bonuses (which for the combined cost of Refresh and damage isn't really that hefty).

I haven't seen the new version yet.

This is like saying that because I can hang drywall means I can install cabinets. Sure they both deal with building a house but they are very different specializations. The ability to hang drywall has absolutely no bearing on understanding how to install cabinets. They are different professions, such as carpentry and metalworking.

No I am saying that because you can do it all (unless you have an Aspect or Aspects that relates to the situation) you can install cabinets. Having a high Craftsmanship without any Aspects to compel means you can do it all.

A master carpenter has an Aspect relating to carpentry and a high Craftmanship.

A master metalworker has an Aspect relating to metalworking and a high Craftmanship.

Some guy with a high Craftmanship and no related Aspects/or a more positive/less limited Aspect can do everything.