and since you seame to agree that 4 is divisive (although I was taking more offense to the outlier part) I wounder so in your mind is 3.5 or path finder divisive?
3.5 wasn't particularly (there was some division, with folks remaining with older editions, but not nearly as much). The big division came between 4E and Pathfinder; so yes, both of those games are divisive. The community split in half ("divided") between them. Were you not around at the time? That was - pretty much - the Edition War we keep talking about.
As for "outlier" - again, that is not a value judgement. 4E is, indeed, an outlier - it's very different in design to the other editions of the game, including the current edition. That, incidentally, is why it was divisive.
Notice that the words "better" or "worse" don't feature in any of that? "Divisive" and "outlier" are not value judgements. Neither of these things are anything to get upset about, and neither has any reflection on you, or your gaming tastes.
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