I've softened my stance on optimization from in the past, where I thought it was a pox on the hobby. Optimizers are not only perfectly fine but helpful in a lot of instances. It really helps to know the upper limits of your game, and nobody else does it better.
They only become problematic when...
Playing some random Civ VI games on my Switch as a palette cleanser after one of the greatest gaming experiences in my life, might move on to playing Split Fiction with the wife at some point.
2e: Tome of Magic. My first introduction to Wild Magic and Elementalists. I thought it was so cool and really sparked my imagination
3e: Heroes of Horror. Some really good books from 3rd (just a lot in general). I could make a whole list of runners up; City/Dungeonscape, Eberron Campaign...
Don't have a lot of older selfies kept around, for reasons that I would assume are obvious, but I did find one from eight years ago, if you wanted to see how magical estrogen is:
Me, eight years younger looking eight years older