TBH I wish they had gone the route of buffing dex ranger instead of str ranger.
Ranger in 5e has always had the issue of being a quasi fighter/rogue/druid and they become dependent on hunter's mark similar to Warlock and Eldritch Blast.
It'd be good to use warlock as an example of how to fix ranger instead of incentivizing str ranger.
Melee is a very crowded field without incentivizing Rangers who are archetypically archers. Almost all martial and half-casters are either only melee or mostly melee and both Druids and Clerics are best in melee as well. I would prefer to have both options just as viable, but Larian kind of made that choice for Rangers by incentivizing strength/melee with the best "Favored Enemy" on top of their strong incentivization of melee through strength-based Jump and Shove, the latter purely a (strong) buff for melee.
BG3 Ranger has some serious issues and I'm hoping Larian is willing to consider the feedback.
