I mostly played 3.5 long ago and now I'm starting from scratch (a.k.a. the strater set about the dragons and the island) on 5th (2024). So far so good, I'm curious about the Tieflings, after movie's Doric. But mostly I played old LoTR, WFRP and W40KRP: Dark Heresy. But I've been a while without playing anything and I miss it.
We never drove out GM nuts, I think. If anything he was the one who jump-scared us from time to time to keep us in line. For example, on one adventure just after leaving a village, we saw a weird hill in the distance who was swaying like breathing. A difficult check later we discovered it wasn't a hill, but the fucking Tarrasque taking a nap. I think we never returned so quickly to base ever.