Made it to the Astral Plane in 5.0.0. Time to go back to 3.4.3.
I saw what there was to see, 3.4.3 is still superior.
Never engraved Elbereth, so changes are irrelevant. Also never used the castle wand, nor Vlad’s throne making the redistribution of wishes meaningless.
The changes to Gehennom did not balance the endgame. Instead it greatly sped it up (3/4 of the turns of my last ascension) feels like there is less to do. I concede that the mysterious force is less of a useless pain now.
Monster changes do not amount to much. New Q had as much to do as the old Q. New f to wail on, &s and fart clouds. The ‘e’ are very unbalanced. Shocking spheres can destroy your rings while you are rearranging inventory. If the sphere was not visible before you pressed enter, you get a nice equipment destruction surprise.