CapnZapp
Legend
As always you try spinning a weakness into a strength.You may find that in 5E there are fewer power-ups for specific niche builds. This was a design decision, and part of the goal of not being required to be a grognard to build effective characters.
The fact remains that 5E just like any edition has a few good weapon choices, with the rest just being worse.
The "design decision" to not let characters use whatever weaponry they feel is cool and still get about the same damage output is not a good thing.
For example, you will never be able to spin the fact Crossbow Expert makes the hand crossbow a much better choice than the Light or Heavy into something else than an incomprehensible disaster.