MockingBird
Hero
I wholeheartedly agree as much as I enjoy 5e, I'm really a person who likes a little more crunch and a few more options. 5e past level 3 you make so few meaningful character choices unless you multiclass that fundamentally by the time level 5 or 6 comes around who your character is doesn't change very much outside of a few classes(Bard and warlock and now the artificer which coincidentally are some of my favorite classes for that reason). Then compounding this issue of so little choice is the glacially slow pace of content release, so I notice the lack of options even more. Also Wizards is really ticking me off with how they are doing releases now with 1 or two subclasses in books instead of larger rules and PC and DM books. I don't want to be nickeled and dimed like that. Then there are the digital offerings like D&D Beyond which I refuse to ever pay for because if that company goes under all "my" content goes away with it which means it wasn't mine to begin with.
That's why I suggested Paizo could make an advanced 5e Options book. 5e is very modular and more character Options or mechanics could possibly be added to support those who like the crunch. I understand yalls opinions though and I cant fully disagree with them because competition is good. I just feel a lot of good stories were missed by folks unwilling to dig through the complexity of PF1e.