They added stats to a lot of the feats in the onednd releases, probably because the complaint about having to pick either ASI or feat that may not give any ASI was too restricting, which is an old complaint from the beginning of 5e. A lot of people were coming from 3.5 and 4e, where your ASI and feats were not only separate, but came more often, so to go from 5 ASI boosts AND 10 feats, to 4 (or 7 if you're a fighter) ASI boosts OR feats, was a bit of an ask imo.
I've said it before, but I still think pathfinder 2e did it better, with ASI on your ancestry, background, and class.
Yes Pathfinder 2 is much better then The on Project version DND but in Pathfinder race affect stats. If compare to DND 5.0 vs PAthfinder 2 I am more like neutral since Dnd 5.0 is more easy to learn and a newbie might get overwhelmed by the share amount of options to choose in Pathfinder 2.
You know the youtuber Wolfheart that was even invited by Larian studios to visit them? He had posted about the newest Pathfinder 2 game on PC and he said that at times he felt a bit overwhelmed by share amount of options and Wolfheath seems like fairly smart at least gamer and he said this about Pathfinder 2 PC game but praised it at same time much as very good game.
Now Wolfheart I doubt he has any history like me playing DnD 3,5 (Pathfinder was evolved from DND 3.5 so reminds of it more or less) pen and paper even and I have played DND 5.0 as well as pen and paper. In my book Pathfinder 2 is better then DND 4.0 and One project. However I will not debate DnD 5.0 vs Pathfinder 2 but I can tell that DnD 5,0 is more easy to learn to totally new players that have not played any DND before. Now Dnd 4.0 was really complicated and they removed dice throwing.
DND 5.0 went kind of back to its roots but kept some good parts from DND 4.0. Example the Hunter was copied from World of Warcraft MMO to DND 4.0 but on other hand WOW MMO have pre that taken many ideas from Dungeons Dragons so they are kind of cooperation.
If you check what Dungeons Dragons rules I have played if computer games counts then I have played 2nD edition DnD (BG1 and BG2), DND 3.0 and DnD 3.5 Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2, Neverwinter Online MMO DnD 4.0, BG3 Early Access and Solasta DnD 5.0, Pathfinder PC games.
