It certainly isn’t complex, but it is absolutely poorly designed. There is a MUCH cleaner, more intuitive way to go about combat, which is what D&D thankfully evolved to.
My personal opinion is that the current system is not ideal either. The fact that you can continue to increase the factor by which you avoid being hit, to unreasonable levels just sits wrong with me. I don't care how magical your armor is, or how good you are at fighting/dodging, at the end of the day even a zero level scrub should be able to hit you. Now, taking damage? that should be a different story.
But then I have a problem with the stat increases as well, so maybe I should just go back to playing BG1/BG2 and leave it alone. I don't say that my opinion is the most popular, nor in line with the general consensus, merely that I don't think it is the cripplingly difficult thing that people claim it is, nor that it is that much worse than the current system. But that's just my opinion.
