Now that I have played many other games, I think that 2E is in many regards a totally unintuitive mess.
I have no experiance with 1E and 4E, but I would prefer a 3E or 5E game over 2E any time.
DnD 3E (or Pathfinder) is a nerds wet dream and everybody elses nightmare.
I think PK was quite unintuitive for both Pathfinder players and those new to the system. I remember there were a lot of complaints (when the game came out, later I didn't follow the forums anymore) from Pathfinder players, because the devs have elevated stats on enemies and those familiar with the system didn't expect the stat bloat. So they were struggling with combat. Meanwhile I didn't know about Pathfinder before playing that game, so I wouldn't know what stats & abilities an enemy was supposed to have anyway. On the other hand I've found building characters difficult, because the many bugs and also misleading tooltips made character creation a guesswork.
