I prefer other games to D&D for fantasy (e.g. Savage Worlds, Barbarians of Lemuria, Fantasy Hero, and Tiny Dungeons 2e). I don't enjoy most of the Gygaxian monsters, the majority of lore introduced into D&D beginning with several 2e settings, or the direction of fantasy that WOTC has pursued since mid 3e. However, when players can't agree on a system other than settling for D&D, 3e and 5e have both decent enough base mechanics and plenty of third party material to help tailor the system into something that I don't mind running- and, thankfully, for 5e, a lot of the third party material I like has been, free, PWYW or no more than $1-3 which has allowed me to acquire plenty of content that I find more useful than WOTC supplements and for about $20-$25 dollars total) .