But Gundam had to come up with a McGuffin for why you'd actually have a need for melee weapons, as opposed to being able to pick the enemy off long before they were visible to the naked eye. Sure, the terrain isn't perfect and you can't always use the sniper rifle. But there's a reason that the only melee weapon a modern soldier carries these days is a knife.
And you can argue that things might change in the future. But basic physics tells us that manipulators aren't nearly as useful in combat as an arm that ends in a piece of solid "material". Melee combat may exist in the future. But an arm built like a pile-driver will probably be structurally sound and therefore more useful than one that ends in a manipulator.
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