It didn't start out bad and honestly, it's a vast improvement on 3.5 in almost every way. Unfortunately, in the latter half of it's lifecycle Paizo got infested with sjws, minorities and women.
fa/tg/uys hate on it because it's popular for the same reason they trash anything popular.
5e is shit though.
Prove it.
Eh, its shit in its own way.
Pathfinder took all the worst aspects of 3.5 which created the need for mechanical fixes, and just tried to fix the mechanical issues, like some aspirin to someone who gets headaches from terminal brain cancer.
Everybody I know uses some house-rules version of GURPS.
This is super, WOTC is a bunch of pedophile faggots anyway.
White males are the predominant enjoyers of it.
Never look at the thing itself look at who its affecting
But they changed it entirely to cater to the snowflakes with 3rd edition.
They already did. It wasn't until 2.5-3rd edition transition and pathfinder that they began really pushing the multi-culti crap. They even allowed orcs to be PALADINS for fucks sake.
Back in the day the niggers stuck to outlier games because the rules were too complicated and they needed it simpler or more in tune with their style of thinking. You see more niggers playing games that limit the sides on the dice because maff is hard yo. Hence, they stick to or used to stick to games that are heavy on 6s. And they still think they are throwing rocks for cash.
Pretty sad when they have to control even your make-believe.
I like REAL mythology and archaeology better.