* The page making/layout is the real problem. Drop shadow on the tables? All art is in a box? Those fonts? Most rules are not fitted tightly to the page size.
To be fair, most art from previous editions of RM was in boxes, too. Drop shadows on the tables are fine to me, and maintain consistency with the shadows around the art. I'll give you the point about the fonts, though. I've had trouble getting used to them.
the Orc stats are for example on the next double page after the description.
Same for humans: both likely unfortunate victims of maintaining alphabetical sequencing while having too many variations available.
In the professions the laborer and the thief are on top of each other on one page, while the warrior monk and the scholar get a column each.
The professions in the early RM2 companions were like that, too.
The chapter on stats starts in the second column of a page. I could go on forever...
The section of stats is not actually the start of a chapter. It's a sub-section, as indicated by having a number after the decimal (2.5). Apparently this isn't a problem for sections 2.6, 2.7, or 2.8?