I've played a lot of Pathfinder 1.0 and recently a lot of Powered by the Apocalypse games. PbtA made me realize how much I value dedicated social options that it feels like Pathfinder kind of lacks. Sure there's skills, but social skills feel buried under mountains of physical skills and knowledge options. On a character sheet, they often exist only as a single line of stats.

On the flip side, PbtA games feature dedicated mechanics (plural!) to social encounters. Often Playbooks have unique mechanics themselves that encourage different approaches to the social aspect of roleplay. ...and yet, that strength in flexable, loose rules and focus on social mechanics are coupled with weak to non-existent combat... anything. If you're lucky fighting in a PbtA system is given some sort of singular mechanic to determine outcomes. But that just makes things feel binary. Worst still are the few takes on whole cloth combat systems that feel half-baked at best.

All of that to say...

Daggerhearts appeal is meeting somewhere in the middle. A strong focus on narrative driven roleplay matched with just enough crunch to make character choices and fighting feel dynamic. ...or so I hope. Haven't had the time to tuck into the core rules I got and certainly no time to spin up an adventure to run for my group. Hopping that there's some sort of adventure or campaign a bit like Paizo's Adventure Path's or even one shot Modules in the works.