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Definitely something changed in how they treated settings, particularly in their fidelity to what came before: what Sword Coast, Eberron and Saltmarsh shared was they didn't go out of their way to overturn the existing history of a setting. With Ravenloft they sort of went hell-bent into "who...

My non-human species are so small in number and concentrated mostly in specific areas that they don't have a big variety of culture and language. Dwarves wandering human realms would speak the language of the land they come from, of course.

The big problem for that is that D&D's elves don't all worship the same gods (and some, in Eberron, don't worship any gods). At least until all this multiverse guff started to be pushed by the powers that be.

It's not difficult, and actually 5E is easier to modify than previous editions, but plainly WotC doesn't want to nor do they think they should. It's vanilla D&D, all the way down.

The vast majority of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit takes place in what was once the kingdoms of Gondor/Arnor so that makes sense though.

Who on earth thought an adventure needed a dozen people writing it! Astounding.

I appreciated the flavour of a lot of those adventures (and that really is the strength of the collection) but some of those adventures are plain bad.

I'd be hesitant in calling Quests from the Infinite staiircase a straight up reprint. Yawning portal - definitely, but Infinite Staircase is following the more recent WoTC practice of changing quite a significant amount of things in their reprints. They added in antagonist in the Barrier Peaks...

Yeah, I really don't get it, people thinking making up gods and religions for their setting is not "too much work", but languages are? (You can actually run D&D without defining any gods - I also think D&D's focus on "gods" rather than religion is wrongheaded)

A more immersive experience, a sense of verisimilitude, a piece of wordlbuilding that doesn't offend my intellectual sensibilities, an actual reason for languages to exist in D&D at all? Do I need to go on? Every time I mention this people go into some sort of hysterical paroxysm thinking that...

D&D handles languages terribly so I completely throw it out for my games, including the ludicrous "common".

"The Styes" in Ghosts of Saltmarsh is a 3E adventure from Dungeon #121. The "juvenile kraken" in Ghosts of Saltmarsh is identical to a differently labelled picture in that Dungeon magazine. adventure

It wasn't "based on it".... it was the exact art from the Dungeon adventure back in 2006. They just reprinted it as is.

I get players having them as often as I could - but I've been using 1 day short rest, week long rest for all my campaigns.

Sometimes a bit of absurdity to illustrate a point is warranted.

I'm not even sure if they know why they removed them to be honest.

"more overall statblocks" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that assertion. If it has fewer statblocks that I need in my campaign then it is of less utility, is it not? If I gave you a Monster Manual with 10,000 statblocks that are say, all varieties of pirates, would you say that has more or...

It's not great to have a "new and improved version" having less utility than the version it replaced?

I guess its not problematic to stat out drow in monster manuals after all. Huh.