2. As this thread shows minmaxers will just seek something new to minmax and exclusively play that, so nothing has improved except flavour getting destroyed.
Min/maxers will always optimize. That is there nature.
The good news is I heard they are a very small part of the community.
And minmaxers were (are?) only a tiny amount of the RPG players,
So we really don't need to worry about them.
No my melodramatic interlocutor, no flavour was destroyed in 5e(2024).
Each race still has its own history, and culture and identity.
It's odd that you think all of that was tied to Stat bonuses.
