Why the hate on 5e?

[EggKookoo]

I've not seen it that way, but that's an interesting perspective. I think that Pathfinder versus 4e is what drove the decision to 5e, but I may be wrong about that.

I don't disagree in principle, but I'm not sure 4e had enough impact to drive anyone anywhere.

Which is too bad since 3.x did some nice cleaning up and reorganizing of things across the board, structurally.

Oh, totally agree! There's a lot to admire in 3e. I just think they went too far with some concepts, like building NPCs as PCs with creature levels and whatnot. And the runaway bonuses. It made DMing a pain, especially at higher levels. Again, DMing is hard at high levels for any edition, but 3e is in a class by itself.

I did read not long after it was released that Fifth Edition was the "best version of Third Edition yet!"