Thomas Shey
Legend
"I'd like to do more with this aspect of the existing system" is what most third party products are about. Not that the existing system is busted and non-functional without houserules or a third party product, but that it expands on existing good functional stuff in a different direction. I don't see anyone pretending there is no room for improvement in 5e. But I do see a lot of comments like yours - acting like any improvement that can be made is proof the existing product was non-functional and busted. The darn game has run successfully for a decade and an awful lot of the people playing it use essentially no houserules or third party products and still report the system is working just fine for them. You liking some other stuff that isn't currently in the system is fine - but the claims it's a broken non-functional system and anyone who disagrees is pretending is a bridge too far.
Heck, I'm not a fan of D&D-sphere games in general or 5e in particular, but I'd never claim it was dysfunctional. That would require a conspiracy-theory level explanation for its success (even though I think a lot of that comes from non-system based reasons, you've got to have at least a basically functional system for that to work).