This is literally what happens when you give a 12 year old Chud billions of dollars.

Pathfinder 1e is basically the old absurd buildcrafting of the D&D 3.5e splat sprawl, but with a solid balance pass to make it more workable.

Pathfinder 2e is basically "what if D&D 5e had decided to fix core issues with D&D's design and also gone all in on making every character class flavorful and varied and also balanced it pretty well at the same time, instead of doing the exact opposite of all of that like it did."

In my experience when you get familiar with DnD you start thinking a lot of "I wish I could play this class this way" or "I wish there was a system for x or y". Now you could stick with DnD and create homebrew these yourself but if you don't want to you can use the already rigorously tested and researched material from Paizo. My personal opinion having played PF 1e and 2e I prefer 1e.

Tired of making up house rules for crafting (and other stuff) in 5e (or buying splat books for it)? They already made rules for it, in the core rules!
Players don't want to shell out money for a new rulebook? Paizo is literally giving the rules away for free.

There's way more options for everything, the leveling makes more sense, it's more polished, and Paizo staff is unionized.

Compared to 5e?

It's like DnD but for adults

the highest selling point of pf1 is that it's good for those who either lack imagination and need the books to create everything for them, or those who think complication equals complexity

as for 2e i have no idea

There were rules like that in like 2.0 for old people, kids, and women. Nobody gave enough of a shit to be that pendantic.

Probably more than -2, if I'm being pedantic. The average adult woman has roughly the same upper body strength as a 13 year old boy.

Video gamey? What part about it gives you that impression. Legitimate question as I don’t see it, granted I usually take a story based approach with character creation.

He would absolutely insert his companies into the game with like a character called 'Teslus' or something.

He'd have a character Pre-built he got offline that was min/maxxed to shit and role play would just be that he was an epic badass knight who slayed pussy all the time. Plus he's start PvP combat when it was totally inappropriate.

He'll print off a hundred copies of Black Lotus just for himself to sign and sell at 3* the price of an original and the Elon Stans will buy it up within a day.

MTG has a ton of in game lore to build from. Just feels like a cash grab to start pulling in other IPs.

The LOTR set also had some really overpowered cards and mechanics. The One Ring is still the most common card in modern.

The chud types were also pretty salty about black Aragorn and there’s no shortage of those assholes in the MTG community.

Not a MTG player myself but they probably don't want the game to turn into the Fortnite of card games.

Every expansion that is based on an IP like lord of the rings in another expansion that doesn't build on the lore of magic the gathering. Wizards of the coast are also starting to do more crossovers in the future, which again makes the problem worse. Its a case of the company prioritizing short term profit from a IP linked set over the long term experience of the player base.

cultural Harperism.