Insulting other members
You stated DnD has to be fantasy and I told you this was wrong due to various 3PP that use it yo emulate other genres. So you trying to stick to this same schtick is biased.Point by point. No, calling something not D&D isn't demeaning, but insisting it has to be might be.
Because DnD fans whine about any little change, and you are proof of this.A lot of these 3P aren't looking to be D&D, but looking to harness D&D for their own ideas. (All three of the kickstarter expansions you mention keep classes, races and levels!)
Using a D20 engine, all the same stats in 2e. Just removing magic and having powers instead to cover all eventualities. Know what else it also had, a better cosmology too.In fact M&M was specifically meant as not being shackled by D&D, but to stand alone on its own. It can cover multiple genres because superheroes is a kitchen sink genre.
And also had gods around mid level and cosmic beings sitting above them. Guess what DnD does not have?
Its main issue is doing street level supers, it can do them but it can feel a but flat sometimes. So refining the 5e so it can shine would ge good.
Wrong.And I didn't say you couldn't change a single thing without your game turning into not D&D, but change too many things and you no longer have something that can be recognized as D&D.
And your way, it might be freer, but not necessarily better. Choices aren't inherently a good thing, and by getting rid of limits you get rid of tropes that people enjoy and of conveniences bred by them. If you need to rewrite the core rules, then you aren't playing the same game anymore.
The rules aren't being changed just some choices at chargen so trying to equate that to changing the game to not be DnD is utterly false. And your thinking, and others like you, is what holds DnD back yo be freer. And quite frankly who cares about tropes, I certainly don't.
The D20 system is fine, there are some inherent issues that could be improved.If you don't enjoy class and levels, fantasy, the six abilities, nor the D&Disms, then what exactly do you like about D&D?
In actual fact it does, so on this you are wrong. DnD5e is an rpg system, engine.(The core mechanic doesn't a D&D make, you know?)