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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
The one true edition 

Back when you really had to work to survive goddammit! 

No exotic races or classes, no death saves or cantrips, just torches, rope, ten foot poles, and terrified hirelings being pushed into traps.
gpt
Oh we had tons of exotic races and classes.  Almost anything they have today we homebrewed back then or got from Dragon magazine.

And cantrips were actually introduced in 1e with the original Unearthed Arcana.

Subsequent editions were mostly just repackaging the same material over and over.