I see your Palladium, and I raise you Savage Worlds.
That being said...
I don't dislike 5e as a system. I dislike the bloat and politics that surround it. Give me a core 5e game with a custom homebrew setting and I'll bring the dice and beer. Unfortunately, that's hardly what I ever see, so I simply don't play 5e. (For full disclosure, I moved out to the sticks a little more than a year ago and there aren't really any gamers that I know of, let alone a FLGS, so all my gaming is now done through PbP.) So many of the 5e games I see are advertised as "all official content allowed" and running a pre-gen adventure that everyone who signs up has probably played before. I never jumped onto the PF bandwagon, despite being hard into 3e/3.5 in the early-mid 2000s (I don't even own PF for Savage Worlds), so I don't consider that game an alternative. Besides, the PF bloat is just as bad as the DnD bloat.
So what am I actually playing now?
- Deadlands: Hell on Earth (Savage Worlds)
- Cyberpunk Red
- Forbidden Lands
- Worlds Without Number
- Castles & Crusades (currently on hiatus)
- Numenora
- Dark Ember (a Mork Borg homebrew)
There are so many different games out there. I'm personally interested in several others, but as I mentioned, my real-life situation limits my chances to play them unless I want to start one up and GM. But having been the "forever GM" for most of the last two decades, I'm really enjoying just being a player for now.