While I do agree that 3(.5)e was probably the best edition for CRPGs, 5e is far from empty or dull and is definitely the second best (third if you count 3.5e separately) D&D edition for videogames - definitely better than e.g. 2e AD&D used in BG1/2, although I love those games. And anything is better than 4e (for TT OR CRPGs).
I don't care at all about the game being faithful to the ruleset, but currently, the combat just completely blows once you begin to understand it (and how easily it can be cheesed) and the reason it blows are the changes Larian introduced (for the most part), not the vanilla 5e rules. While I, again, don't care about the ruleset faithfulness, I genuinely believe that if they removed backstab/height (dis)advantage BS and severely toned down surfaces/dipping, the combat system would at least not be a horrible cheesy, boring, repetetive mess that made me uninstall the game before finishing my druid playthrough...
