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>I just don't know if a flying PC is such a big deal
Another way to put it would be that the other sources of flight within the Player's Handbook in 5e would be
>a spell available to some 5th level characters that lasts 10 minutes and ends if you take too much damage
>a feature of a level 14 Sorcerer that allows them infinite flight

>D&D obstacles are usually violence, puzzles, traps, and environmental hazards, right? Those are the main categories. I don't know if a guy being above the ground is going to consistently trivialise even one of those categories.
I wouldn't classify it as consistently trivializing an entire category, but rather trivializing portions of each.
Some traps are triggered by pressure plates, or are just pitfall traps. Does flight bypass every trap? No. Does it bypass several common types? Yes.
Some enemies only have melee options, such as animals or animal-like monsters. Others only have relatively short-range options that a flying character can get out of reach of, or otherwise have worse ranged attacks than melee attacks, like a Knight who makes two swings with a greatsword or one mediocre shot with a crossbow.
Environmental hazards like cliffs and ravines were touched on. Flight and tying off a rope might not solve everything, but it can solve several.

To a certain extent, I've personally changed my tune on it. I think a lot of people see it as a bigger deal than it is specifically because the core rules imply that it's a big deal, by having it restricted to rare or temporary methods at higher levels. I do think it'd be better if it was clearer about weight allowances, and more interesting if it had other restrictions, but I'm not sure if overpowered is the word I'd use anymore.
It's something that can certainly be accounted for, but it's also something that can far more easily unravel a session for a more average DM if it's not accounted for. I can understand how people think it is overpowered for that reason.

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