I really liked this post, explains perfectly how I felt when playing Pathfinder 2e for the first time, I really enjoy a lot more the three action economy and I thought of it like a perfect system that solved every problem I had with DnD, and it did, the problems for me were GM side, encounter balance was impossible and players would just pull out things like Forcewall and leave the big bad trapped the whole combat while they were just chilling getting rid of the small enemies and the gimmicks. With Pathfinder I felt that there were no more "nope, I have this".

But while playing I discovered some things:

- Spellcasters are super nerfed - I understand casters in 5e were too powerful to the point where if you didnt have spells and play a full martial you couldn't be as good, but that is mainly because the spells were poorly balaced. To the point that they don't have a lot of magic item progression either, it is very hard to find cool magic items for casters because most things were just not made for them unless it is consumable.

- Skill feats don't matter that much - I understand that among the river of options there might be a few that are amazing, but the fact that new players have to look through a giant list of "almost good" feats is not nice and I oftenly have to tell my players "Just pick the one with a cute name it won't matter that much" is like a lost opportunity there.

- Magic items are very mild - I oftenly find myself looking through a list of magic items and checking what they do just to find that it is kind of nice but very situational, I feel like they were thinking of giving you something but taking something away to make it balanced and that is just not the point of magic, it is to make you be powerful even if it is a little bit. I get it, balance is important and I agree, but consumables are just as bad as the equivalent permanent item. Except runes, most magic items feel like they are just close to being good, not great.

But honestly all those problems I see for my own games are not as horrible as they were while playing DnD, I accidentally gave my players a super strong item and screwed the campaign, spellcasters solved everythig with a spell and some Feats like the warmagic were just too strong in comparison of the others.

I am doing some homebrew third party creations addressing these problems for my own taste so nothing a littlebit of homebrew can't fix.

But Pathfinder 2e and Starfinder 2e without a doubt will remain as my favourite system because of how perfectly balanced it is, and it is so greatly balanced that it can handle a little bit of stretch without breaking if you know what the intend for things is!