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>lurker here
You basically got it.

pro 2e: still has the mechanical AD&D legacy and thus could reasonably support the old playstyle, though worse in some aspects.
contra 2e: switch to new intended playstyle, adventures are mainly linear stories.

You could be partisan on both sides depending if you emphasize remaining substance or meta direction.

The resident troll (or trolls) works this corner to milk his daily dopamine micro dose of attention. All there is to it. Doesn't really matter aside from being noise that drowns out actual gaming content. A tale as old as the internet.

Personally I think 2e is a perfectly fine pile of salvage parts to use at leisure.

I'm not sure when /b/ became /pol/-light, or just an echo chamber, but it's pissing me off. Fuck politics! Get off your ass and post something, anything, right now. I don't care what it is. If you're in to model trains, start a thread about it. Want to hear stories about getting your cherry popped, start a thread about it. Put up a few threads that aren't the same old shit, and maybe this place could be interesting again.

I truly think that boredom is the only reason most of us still come to /b/. Nothing really interesting has happened here in years. The place is under an FBI microscope. Everyone who gave it its humor has long since buggered off. Not just /b/, either. /wg/ has largely dried up. /k/ is a shadow of its former glory, and /pol/ is such a shitshow of trolls and ragebait that it's not remotely worth visiting anymore.