Vampire: the masquerade

Ron Edwards spends some time tearing into the incoherent design of Vampires: The Masquerade in "GNS and Other Matters of Role-playing Theory." He ends his discussion with these two sentences, which made me laugh:

"One may ask, if this design is so horribly dysfunctional, why is it so popular? The answer requires an economic perspective on RPGs, in addition to the conceptual and functional one outlined in this essay, and is best left for discussion."