and 2nd edition goofed by making the paladin class restricted to humans.
and some now still believe that the paladin should of been a prestige class.
well as far as all the prcs, your right there are to many of them andsome of them are absolutely garbage, and carry a bit of design flaws.
and some just stereotype characters.
some ofthem need to go, some of them id like to see in 4.0( the bladesinger, frostmage, elemental savant, highmage and champion of corellon larethian just to name a few) some others i can do with out ever seeing or hearing of ever again.
while i can see some people's arguments on somethings, ill disagree with people on others.