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Compared to Level Up: A5e, 2024 5e received a tiny dollop of complexity and crunch in what it was offering to the Players. It made some improvements to 2014 5e while making some questionable changes in other areas of the RPG.

It's certainly possible that the pendulum is making its' way to some degree of complexity and crunch. However, it's hard to say if the releases of those two RPGs are the start of a trend that will lead to RPGs being like they were before 5e. It could be some RPG companies are testing the waters...

With interest. ;) I find A5e to be a good investment.

You mean the Tracking rules in the DMG? They're pretty simple and easy to use since they mostly require the player to make a Wisdom (Survival) check.

What would be the alternative? curious

A successful History check. (y) Wouldn't this have made the Ranger into arcane half-casters rather divine half-casters? You said this earlier: Why turn toward a wizard when they just as easily could have turned to a Fey, an Elemental, or another and much older Ranger?

So far, I have had my Ranger character use the Survival skill for all of his tracking without any problem. It made for some interesting moments for my Ranger character. True, most quests probably won't have fresh tracks for the Ranger to follow. But a Ranger can still track an old set of tracks...

Thankfully the Wildborn Ranger in A5e gets their spells from the Druid spell list. As for Tracking, we've got the Survival skill for the purposes of tracking something without the aid of magic.

Or all of the above. ;) However, since the 2024 Guide background seems to be the go-to Ranger background, it would appear to be the first option. Druids taught Rangers how to use Nature Magic (another name for 4e's Primal Magic?). That said, why give the Ranger class their own spell list when...

As @DEFCON 1 pointed out in their post, what would be gained if you made each of the Fighter and Ranger subclasses into their own classes. Aside from the features that were originally subclass features, you would have to add in new base class features for each one to make them visually distinct...

This problem was addressed in Level Up when each of the classes was given features to cover each of the pillars in the game. They also became a little more customizable than their counterparts in 5e by having features that gave the player more than one option to choose from. Agreed. The Level...

You could always give them one of the two Heritage gifts from Level Up. Dwarven Stability You gain an expertise die on saving throws against effects that would knock you prone, and on saving throws made to resist being shoved. For 5e, it could be rewritten as: You gain an Advantage on saving...

Each class in Level Up: A5e has features that cover each of the three pillars of gameplay. Combat, Exploration and Social Interaction. How they cover these three pillars differs between each class. An A5e Cleric goes out into the wider world to spread their message to the public. An A5e Bard...

Having it where each class has a feature or two in the exploration pillar would work better. Isn't that what a Background is for?

They are still almost always magical from our point of view. How does a native of a high magic setting see magic? A part of the background? Nothing to write home about? ;)

Yes, however, Gandalf dresses the part and carries a staff. Aragorn could be mistaken for a Fighter or a Rogue.

I am perfectly okay with it. Whenever my RPG group travelled through the wilderness or through a dungeon, my Gloom stalker Ranger/Scout Rogue always volunteered to scout ahead.

Well, there is A5e's Fantastic Fletcher archetype for the Ranger. They can augment their arrows in a number of ways.

If Aragorn knew any magic as a Ranger in LoTR, it would have to be subtle to the point where you didn't know he cast a spell. A whisper here, a whisper there for the verbal component. A hand gesture that wouldn't seem too out of place for the somatic component. An item seemingly picked up at...

If 5e was anything like PF1 with regards to Sorcerer Bloodlines, the Sorcerer class would out-archetype the other classes by sheer number alone. ;) PF1 has up to 51 Sorcerer Bloodlines and that's not including the 3pp ones. :p As for PF2, Sorcerer Bloodlines are broken up among the four...