Justice and Rule
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Let me reassure you: no, it is not only your opinion...
"but wait! there's more..."
I would not stop at "half-baked" however.
Yes, they severely over-engineer far too many subsystems. "Baking" the system another go would cut away lot of excess verbiage for sure.
But the real issue is not that they aimed for greatness, and didn't get all the way.
The real issue is that they aimed for a system with thousands of pre-determined choices. They aimed for a system that does not trust the GM. They aimed for a system where it is basically impossible to tweak anything Paizo doesn't want you to tweak.
Bake it all you want, it will never be lean, it will never be elegant, it will never be friendly and it will never be trusting.
My best way to phrasing it succinctly: Paizo reserves all the design space for itself.
Not all of you will immediately get what I mean by that, but it remains the shortest way to get to the heart of why I think PF2 is essentially a failed system.
Why are you spoilering this? Do you give away the plot to Shang-Chi in this post or something? This is literally what you always say in every thread, so why hide it?