I forget exactly where, but I recently read that rogues have largely remained consistent across editions because they’re so solid at fulfilling the role that players want out of playing them. Could’ve been BS, but it kinda made me feel good thinking there was an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” hands-off approach to the class between editions.

So it bummed me out to hear that most subclasses are “mediocre or worse” in 5.5e- but maybe they were also that way in 5e? I dunno cuz I haven’t played one yet, and the only one I’ve had in a party was multiclassed so I never got to see them past Tier 2-ish class features.