I paged through the 2024 MM this morning. At a glance...
The things I liked: the art, more variety of high CR monsters.
Things I'm neutral about: The alphabetical organization
Things I dislike: Lore changes, type changes, alignment changes, elimination of lair actions.
I still can't believe they didn't include any rules on how to create new monsters in either the 2024 DMG or MM.
@Tim_Eagon
lore changes?
@jacklaridian yeah, I found some weird, almost arbitrary, changes in the book, like lizard folk being connected to the elemental plane of Earth and Efreets not being evil anymore.
@Tim_Eagon
Oh weird. I don't like that Lizard Folk change.
@Tim_Eagon Surely you can entirely believe that a company who wants you to buy their books forever is uninterested in you creating anything for yourself?
@Printdevil They apparently want to you to reskin, which is fine to a certain point.
@Tim_Eagon "boo" he announced