Aldarc
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Paizo does not exist as a company to give you that 5e dream product you want nor will they have necessarily failed, should they fail, because of the reasons you say. (Seriously, if Paizo fails, it will not be because the market cares about LFQW. That's laughably absurd as a hypothesis.)Let me reassure you I'm playing 5E because it resembles d20 without the annoying crud, and also because none of fundamental flaws of 4E aren't there.
All I wish is for deeper crunch on the player side.
So why not work on your 5e crunch product yourself? You are the only person who seems to know what you are looking for. So who could know better than you? Who could design this better than you? For a number of people, I have seen them look at PF2 as a product that exists in a similar design space, though you have seemingly already written it off because you don't like how they did it. It doesn't seem to matter if it fits the niche you have called for or not, because you you don't like its "feat soup" approach. (That's more player-side crunch by the way.) So why not make a thread where you outline what you want in your dream RPG product and how you would go about doing it? Then you could also see get a tentative sense, albeit from a small population size, about how popular those choices would be.