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Interesting! I'll have to look into Level Up: A5e. Yes, it was! Alongside the decision to change attributes to be their bonuses. It was an attempt to use occam's razor to find the simplest (ergo laziest) solution. Would it have been better to find a way to use the non-bonus increasing stats...

Apologies on the skills, I completely forgot 4e made that change as well. I know that Pathfinder consolidated others as well in the variant, but I didn't have the time to look into those skills at the time. However, I'm not sure I'd call Epic Destiny capstones really equivalent. They tend to be...

I think the change to Species was done lazily, much like I think the Tasha's variant of "pick whatever attribute bonuses you want" was done lazily. It's not a researched, thought-out decision. It's a slapped on change, meant to bandaid fix the whole "the existence of race means the existence of...

Fun fact: a not-insignificant portion of 5e was lifted from Pathfinder already. Acrobatics and Athletics were from Pathfinder's "Consolidated Skills" optional rule (and indeed, the concept of consolidating 3.5e's skills was itself taken from that optional rule). Having a 20th level "capstone"...

Big agree. Ancestry fits the best (a la Pathfinder 2e), not only because it catches the weird edge cases like Tieflings (who can be born to any race, theoretically) and Aasimar, but also because it changes the starting choices for character creation into Ancestry, Background, and Class (ABC). So...