My views on Fighter have changed

I no longer think Fighter is the best class in the game and is quite balanced at later levels.

I've been playing PF2E since the original OGL debacle with Wotc and have just reached level 9 in my first campaign of Kingmaker playing a Fighter using a bastard sword.

Like many others, I was led to believe that Fighter is the best class in the game because of primarily their higher accuracy and higher crit chance, and that rang true at the early levels 1-5 for the most part. As time went on and the spellcasters came online, I find that this has become far less important. Enemies now have more HP, have more resistances, have more abilities to deny or contain me. Landing a crit feels good, and is impactful, but no longer ends encounters in the same way. Furthermore, fighting multiple enemies has become incredibly difficult without reliable AOE.

This is not a complaint about the fighter, I am praising the system for its design, and I am happy that my views have changed.