Might it also interest you to know that 5e is, as the official edition, older and longer running now that 3.0 OR 3.5? It has actually had more time as the official game edition than any other edition, in fact! It's not the 'new hotness' - it's the edition that has had the MOST staying power of ANY D&D edition, at this stage. Yes - it's actually been that long, believe it or not... and unlike 4e, which showed its lack of popularity and was functionally scrapped within two years, this one has drawn people in and retained old players alike, and has shown its longevity.... whether you personally like it or not.
As an aside, I'm curious, to leucrotta - What part of 5e are you under the impression has monsters and PCs not playing by the same rules? They do play by the same rules, they're even built using the same rules and strictures, thee same progression, the same rules governing hit dice and proficiency bonus, etc., their abilities and saves are derived in the same way, their damage is derived in the same way... They absolutely play by the same rules as player characters do.
Marc Abaddon touched on some of my reservations. My reservations towards the edition run deeper than that, but I'm not really interested in discussing that topic in depth to someone who reacts with such hostility at the slightest whiff of criticism towards their edition of choice.
I honestly think the 5th edition is better in just about every damn way to previous editions, and I am certainly not young or inexperienced with rpgs. =)
There are some things in my experience it does pretty well, some have been mentioned in this thread already. But I can think of an equal or greater amount of areas where other editions surpass it. 5th edition does not really strike me as striving towards anything particularly simulationist compared to other editions if that makes sense. I also perceive a higher level of granularity in areas like character building that I feel give greater control over mechanically expressing the character you want to play to a finer degree in third edition. There's also the matter of the setting material: while probably controversial, I don't think 5e's iteration of the Realms really holds a candle to 2nd's for example.
