James Gasik
We don't talk about Pun-Pun
It's just another way of looking at the problem. Each edition has changes from the last, if a new edition comes out and says "Fighters can now lift mountains", it is indeed a form of power creep, though I do admit, most people think of an edition of D&D as a separate game entirely.But it is not a "game as a whole" -- they are different games. Calling it power creep shoots wide of the point and suggests a kind of continuity of experience and expectations that just doesn't exist.
This isn't always true for other games however. Vampire 1e to Vampire 20th anniversary, for example, is all the same game, though each edition makes adjustments to the power level. (an example to WoD heads would be Celerity changes based on edition).
I have no problems with someone saying "how the game was in 3e has no bearing on 5e for a discussion on power creep/seep", if that's how they see it. I was simply trying to explain what I thought Micah Sweet's position was.