I really like where D&D’s at, since it has multiple classes at every point along the “at will” to “once per day” spectrum, so players can pick what they like. D&D 4e tried homogenizing everyone into having mostly “at will” powers and players (myself included) hated it.
Agreed about not liking that D&D sucks all the air out of the room, though.
Pictured: Me, getting excited for DC20, even though I know I’ll never get to play it 
I think you meant to say “Deck” in the second paragraph.
But yeah I totally vibe with your observation. Something a bit ironic with this situation is that a big part of why other companies simply can’t provide the kind of service Steam does is copyright issues - XBox and Playstation both give out free games, Nintendo has their online service, but no option remotely compares to “make everything available on one app on the most modern device.” Imagine if Nintendo put everything that had ever appeared on the Wii/DS/Wii U/3DS/Switch shops all on one online storefront on the Switch, and let you attach ownership to your account and play everything you owned on the most recent device - then they would have about a quarter of the functionality that Steam has on the Deck, where you have access to every game you’ve bought for PC for as long as Steam has existed (and quite a few things from before that) and the number of things that have lost compatibility is pretty low.
This sounds like something that happened in CKIII
There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.
There’s a little detail in Tie Fighter media that I like, where the Tie Fighter pilots love the fact that they don’t have shields or any fancy fly-by-wire stuff in their fighters because it makes them “real pilots”, compared to rebel pilots who have astromechs, shields, and hyperdrives. Extrapolated out a bit, and you could interpret the Empire as constantly sabotaging its own military effectiveness because of a toxic bravado that has been allowed to infect its military at all levels, which is pretty compatible with the Empire’s implied fascist ideology (that the movies don’t go too much into detail about).
So storm troopers could have Heinlein-esque power suits, but they all think that having something like that is for wimps, all the way up to the top of the chain of command.
The blasters used in the movie era are… Basically unstoppable? They’re the pinnacle of weapon tech as far as mass arming is concerned.
AFAIK no source goes into this, but I’ve always interpreted the Star Wars universe as having basically invented every single thing that it’s possible to invent in their universe. Technology gets better or worse generation to generation based on how unified society is and the proximity of the manufacturer to certain hyper-rare resources, ie the Empire was able to build the Death Star not because they invented a really big laser, but because they centralized enough military manufacturing in one place to actually be able to build it.
Anyway that’s the only way I can think of to square the universe’s technology being basically indistinguishable between the three trilogies and stuff like KOTOR.
IIRC the cloning tech all got destroyed during the Clone Wars, so the Empire switched to conscription.
I switched over to this script on my desktop, and I use NewPipe on mobile. The script requires you to disable your ad blocker for YT, and then uses a different method to bypass ads that hopefully google will be less likely to patch.