Ok, recently asked about CoC, and was told it didn't go woke, so I read a review of 7e.
Good news: sounds like it wasn't 'woke' in it's candid handling of the 1920-30s era.
But I got a surprising bit of bad news.
If the reviewer was accurate and his review's prose suggested competence and fairness, chaosium took its perfectly good rules system and basically fuckified it severely.
It seems a lot of changes complicated, adding dice pools or eliminating the simple resistance table. Others seem fair, like allowing players to push some rolls, or keeping POW from being the most vital stat.
But in general the changes seem to have fucked up a perfectly good system.
Why do game companies insist on ''fixing'' what is working fine?
Just to sell a new edition?