Alignment was a poorly conceived mechanic from its inception. Good riddance.
What an ignorant opinion. Alignment is one of the founding ideas of the game. Does anyone take seriously comments like this?
Be polite and avoid personal jabs please, or consider not posting if you have nothing to add to the conversation. I believe it was WoTC's wish to tone down on the focus of alignment as a system. Though this doesn't mean that there's a concept of underlying alignments, we all have a bit of good and evil in ourselves and so does fictional characters, depending on how the writers approach them, or how they're conveyed through player action / interpretation.