The drape cut, BTW, of A&S was originally intended as a type of "corpulent cut". That's a tailor's polite way of saying a coat cut for a fat chap. The idea was to add extra rolls of excess cloth to the chest to balance out the excess rolls of fat on the waist, thus helping the wearing look more athletic - and failing that, as least more balanced.
No, this was not the original intent of the drape cut. It is a potential benefit of the drape cut for certain clients -- I gather you saw the same clip of John Hitchcock talking to Oswald Boeteng that got posted on Style Forum. Note that Hitchcock did not say that this was the origin of drape, because it isn't.
I realize you don't like drape, but why you must persist with this delusional campaign to demonize it, misrepresent it, and just lie about it is beyond me.
Shoulder padding is more to correct sloping shoulders. It is a huge internet myth that all they do is make the shoulders look artificially muscular. Muscular men with square shoulders may still need padding around the back of the shoulder because as a result of some areas being built up, others are left too hollow.
There is a lot of anti-structure propaganda around on the internet, with shrill rhetoric that demands the removal of shoulder pads, and gutting of canvas structure in the chest. Why not go all the way and just remove the whole lot and always wear a sloppy shirt jacket? Never mind that this would mean the death of tailoring as we know it, for such shirt jackets are traditionally not regarded as tailored garments but as shirtmaker's garments. Structure in a tailored coat is something that goes all the way back to the 1600's, and it is a huge pity the internet is being used as a medium to try to give it a bad reputation.
Talk about shrill. You have become the most shrill person on all the forums. You have always been reactionary and eccentric, but you didn't used to be such a damned bore.
Isn't it enough that you like what you like, and other people like what they like? There seems to be room enough for all of us. Yet when people talk about styles you don't like, it is "propaganda." When you start a forum to discuss what you like, that is ... what?
I acutally admire your forum, though I don't read it much. I see it for what it is, an enormous repository of valuable information that might otherwise be forgotten or lost, even if not all of it (maybe not even most of it) pertains to things that I would ever want to wear.
Face it, Sator, the only one in the crusade is you. I think you used to have a sense of humor and irony. Whether you ever did or not, you don't any more and haven't for a long time.
BTW, this is just more straw-manning. You know enough about tailoring to know that drape coats often have shoulder pads (of varing widths and thicknesses) and they
always have canvas. Soft tailoring is a skill unto itself, in many ways more difficult than making a structured coat, in which a hard cavas can hide many small fit discrepancies.
I also look forward to my next 1,000 posts. 
