D&D 5E (2024) So, what does the Artificer "replace"?

[TwoSix]

while I enjoyed parts of almost all splat books that were printed for 3/3.5e, there was a lot of garbage materials in there.

over half of prestige classes, feats, spell, gear were complete garbage tier, about 10% were brokenly overpowered, so you really needed to look really good to avoid trash and avoid game breaking.

even now there is disbalance in the game, but in 5E bell curve is higher and a lot is more closer to the average.

Yes, but I still BOUGHT them. I haven't bought a WotC product on my own since 2021 (Mordenkainen's MotM).

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I would not mind ONE, PHB style book per year.

possible one new class,
4-5 subclasses per already printed class.
50ish feats
100ish spells
1 or 2 alternate class feature per class(get rid of mandatory HM for rangers).

Per year??

That would be terrible, IMO...