LordRhaega that's really interesting.
I encountered 5e when getting my kids into D&D, and the complexity of the rules was hugely off-putting. They read to me like the kinds of rules that computer games are better at than pen-and-paper situations.
When I was a kid, we could throw together a couple characters and play a few encounters at lunch recess, with 5e, there's so much minutia, that when helping my kid put together characters, in the back of my head all I could think was "this should be a video game". So Larian's implementation of it has been mostly satisfying to me.
I certainly agree with all your points, just don't get your hopes up.
