Ease of Use in 5e

The more I've run 5e, the more frustrating I've found the experience. Don't get me wrong - I really like the game, the rules, and the vast bulk of the experience. But the more I've played, the more I've found that the game itself gets in my way. For example:

The Character Sheet. I've complained about this before, and it's still true - the official character sheet for 5e sucks. I still haven't found a really good one, largely because I haven't looked very hard, but the one that we have is certainly not it.

The index. The index of the PHB is bad - it's full of entries reading "see something else" where, frankly, it would just be easier to give the page number. Perhaps the worst example is "Dash".

(Of course, in the 21st century what we should really have is an easily-accessed online database of all the rules, all painstakingly hyperlinked and searchable. Physical books, and even PDFs, are actually entirely the wrong format for this game.)

The monster creation rules. For the new Eberron campaign, I had a pretty clear idea of the monsters I wanted to introduce. Unfortunately, while all of these exist in 3e, none of them yet exist in 5e, which meant I needed to do a conversion. So, I sat down with the 5e DMG... and spent an hour scratching my head. It turns out that the monster creation rules are actually pretty damn good, but they're almost completely backwards, which is pretty damning.

The binding. I paid $50 for my DMG, and by the time I had finished my read-through, and before I gave it any in-game use at all, there were already pages coming loose. Which is absolutely inexcusable in and of itself, but seriously impacts my ability to use the book (since I'm constantly worried it's about to come apart).

I still like 5e. I still think they've created a damn good game. But at this point I kinda wish they'd take the books back to the design stage and produce a revised edition, and in particular a revised edition with no rules changes whatsoever but carefully rewritten to maximise ease of use.