Part of the point I was trying to make earlier is that the inclusion - nay, prevalance - of OS things like surfaces means the 5E rules have had to be drastically changed in some ways, and I don't believe that's to the benefit of the game. If they insist on surfaces being part of the game, the surface mechanics should be changed to accommodate 5E instead, as this is a D&D game.
Most of the time when someone says "benefit" they mean balance and when they mean balance they mean to say it in a specific context (because 5e isn't balanced in a lot of ways and is in others). Internal consistency of a system matters more than accommodation, it being a D&D game is not as relevant.
