I dunno if you actually ran 4E, but I did, and it was tremendous. Countless hours were saved by having a character builder that worked really well (managing to do things Beyond's one can't handle), a monster builder that was really fast and effective (if Beyond has one, and I presume it does, I can't find it).
Also, I dunno what kind of wizardry we used because I don't run PF, but I paid nothing and got to use a character builder that had all the options I needed build my character last time I played PF (mid-2016).
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3E launched with a character builder on a goddamn CD for god's sake.