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Honestly, most of those rules really suck, and I much prefer 5e as it turned out.

Anybody but Disney ...

It's ... pretty rough. Though I think of it as an extended pilot for the amazing series it would become. And I at least like it more than I did Eps. I, II, and IX.

The first game is very proof-of-concept. As such it is definitely repetitive and can get tedious. I would at least play Assassin's Creed II before writing off the entire series.

Red Dead Redemption 2. While the story and characters were certainly well done, the gameplay was some of the most poorly paced I've ever experienced in a video game. The Last of Us. Found it a chore to play, and the characters all acting illogically while the game presents it as SERIOUS DRAMA...

This just illuminates the fact that if you're going to have floating ability scores for all races, then all races should've been designed with those in mind in the first place. As it stands, Tasha's rules for this are just half-baked and result in the nastiest imbalance 5e has seen, by far.

Paladin, pretty easily. Everything you thought the Paladin should be able to do over the decades, the 5e version actually does them.

They won't hand out Cunning Action as a feat for the same reason they won't hand out Action Surge, Arcane Recovery, or Divine Smite as a feat. Those are all class-defining Lv. 2 features, which are too much to be handing out wholesale as feats. I agree about Canny, though, that one really...

Both of them are very flawed but in different ways. Tasha's is dreadfully uninspired. Skills and Powers was a mess.

Not sure "power-creepy" is the word I'd use for Tasha's. The problem seems to be the opposite. Most of it is pretty restrained, often to a fault. The subclasses on the whole, for example, are weak tea compared to what we saw in Xanathar's. A lot of the optional class features also kinda suck...

So, yeah, again, 2.5 extra damage over what you could do before. I don't see the problem. And I've already suggested that the concentration requirement can stay until 6th level to discourage multiclass dipping. I never suggested explicitly making it not work with Hunter's Mark. But if I did...

I don't see how 2.5/3.5/4.5 extra damage per round, on only one hit per round, is something so strong that should require concentration to balance it out. And on top of that, very limited uses per day to balance it out. I can understand maybe at the low levels, but past Lv. 6 I really don't see...

I'd replace Hold Monster with Awaken for the Beast Master's 5th-level spell.

The concentration part of it. It puts the Ranger back on Square One, a class whose features still compete with each other. At the very least the concentration part should've been eliminated at level 6, if they were worried about Ranger dips for it.

Y'all will find something. You always do.

I'm so happy that sanity prevailed and Spell Versatility as we knew it from the UA is dead as Dillinger in Tasha's. I'd have been OK with it on the Ranger, but that's only because the Ranger should've just been a prepared caster, anyway. But the full casters who stood to get it? Nope. No...

The broad concept of Favored Terrain having constant benefits anywhere is what I'm getting at. Resistance to Fire isn't what I'd do for Desert, either, since hot sun =! fire. Resistance to Cold is quite fitting for Arctic, though.

Why? What's "bad for an RPG" about giving the Ranger unique features such as resistance to a certain element based on their Favored Terrain? The idea is to make the Ranger's features more applicable in a wider range of settings while giving that Ranger an identity based on its terrain, and that...

Another reason I like (at least conceptually) Baldur's Gate 3's take on the Ranger.

Literally 29 of the currently 56 spells on their class list.