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5e suffers badly from decision-makers / keyholders trying to reverse engineer their way to success from the goal of "sell ten billion books and accessories" rather than trying to creat a cogent game system.
It feels like a contradictory rat king of differing design priorities because that's exactly what it is.
Same production issue that plagues a lot of media these days.

And it made a shit ton of money, so it and things trying to be it are here to stay for quite a while.