While I am a huge fan of Paizo's games and have been playing PF2e since launch, it's got some pretty large differences. I would heartily recommend it to any would-be D&D players but it's not the dropin all around better replacement for D&D 5e that people say it is.

That is a fair take. I got into PF with 1e and I guess I have to update how I think about it, as it continues to diverge from D&D