Rallying Against 3E and d20

From a letter to Dragon magazine:

...I’d like to comment on the evolution of D&D®...I was completely engrossed in the game. However, supplement after supplement started pouring forth, plus a whole new bunch of characters. Add to that several lines of playing “aids,” manuals, pre-printed character sheets, etc. and the result is a mess. Now I see dungeon expeditions where everyone consults their manuals to check on a monster’s or character’s ability, making sure their tenth level “idiot” can handle a god know’s what armed with a light sabre. Alas for the good old days when a bucket of money didn’t have to be spent to keep up with the game.

Yeah! Take that, WotC and the d20 publishers! The old days before 3E/d20 were better!

Of course, the above was from The Dragon #27, July 1979. Over 20 years before anyone had even heard of d20 or the OGL...