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5th edition is a dumpster fire of imbalance its one of the worst functions of the system.
That's not to say 5th edition is inherently bad on the contrary there's lots of neat stuff in 5th ed that make it stand out.
but if you want the game to be more balanced and for more people to have fun playing it then Larians top concern should be the game balance or rather lack thereof in raw 5th edition. (...)
As someone who played editions 1, AD&D, 3.5, 5 and Pathfinder 1, where game unbalance was wild, I totally disagree with you, 200%. 5e is the most balanced system yet. The exceptions I feel is that weapons need to be balanced in 5e as some weapon choices can be flavor choices that make you far weaker and the armor table needs some love. I am not saying monster stats versus players are balanced. I am talking only about balance between player classes and about avoiding power scaling up too high at higher levels in other editions.
Balance is almost impossible (a build that attacks versus a build for support) and somewhat subjective, but it does not compare to the extreme discrepancies from past editions and Pathfinder.
