Hussar
Legend
Actually, to be honest [MENTION=6834463]happyhermit[/MENTION], I'd say 5e is doing quite well on the world building front. There's what, 15 books for 5e now? Other than SCaG, none of them are much rooted in world building. Now, I do have an issue with the amount of world building that is in 5e core - particularly the Monster Manual which I find mostly useless to be honest. All the bits and bobs about this race being a slave race to that race (good grief that appears a lot in the Monster Manual) and that sort of thing. Granted, I do now what I've always done, ignore it completely. It's of zero use to me.