I’m on the fence for most of this. As both DM and player, I find 5e incredibly bland and boring. But that’s personal taste really. Adding an additional feat for first level characters would help with the blandness and start to have differences between characters at first level.

But it’s hard to argue with the success 5e has had with attracting new players. I think there’s a good argument to be made that part of this success is due to the simplifications made in the game as a whole and particularly character creation.

I do really like D&D doing the work of bringing new players to the hobby, so I hope it keeps that as a priority.

I’m done with D&D, probably forever. All the greedy fucked up monetization stunts attempted during 4th Edition are back with “One” and it’s clear the company will keep pushing that envelope and half sliding it back until they get what they want and then keep going.

I’m going with Pathfinder now and not looking back anymore.

My biggest gripe with 5e is that T3/T4 play is effectively borked by the proficiency bonus scaling. Saving throws are impossible to make, AC is pointless, and martials get very little, if anything, that can compare to 6th+ spells. D&Done doesn’t appear to fix any of those issues.