If those changes were good, I wouldn't complain. The right decision would have been to add more depth.
What they ended up following, and expanding on, was removing more and more groundwork. Yes, this game will be all about convenience, gimmicks and enemies applying shove to cancel out any status effects. Which is still a bonus action, by the way. Logic? What logic? Why not trash terrain altering spells through adding massive jumping distances? Why not give everyone fire arrow and bombs? Oh, you liked druids? Well, at least every species can have 16 wisdom now! Isn't that fixing it perfectly?
Larian must have passed control onto a hyperactive squirrel which is somehow in charge of balancing. This isn't as enjoyable as it could have been. For many reasons. Some of them, the lack of appreciation for world building. Most of them? Invented by the hyperactive squirrel of balancing decisions.
