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I know this is rather late on this thread, but my comment is apropos 2nd edition generally.
I was immediately excited about the announcement of a second edition, assuming that it would be tweaking, such as happened between D&D 3.0 and 3.5. My wife observed that we would likely be finishing the Kingmaker AP just in time to take part in the playtest. As the blogs have shown, however, this is not tweaking: it is a redesign of the game.
To paraphrase Santayana: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
For all the assertions that 2nd will be compatible with 1st, asserting something does not make it so. Every blog post so far has driven home how distinct the new edition will be from the first. What is most perplexing to me, and other players/GMs I have spoken with, is that:
PATHFINDER EXISTS BECAUSE WotC DID THIS SAME THING when they made 4th edition incompatible with any of D&D's previous iterations.
GMs like me (and my gaming group) embraced Pathfinder because it tweaked and carried on what existed in 3e/3.5e. 10 years later, I can still use my old D&D 3.5 resources as well as the material produced for PF. 2e is clearly a far more substantial change; it feels like a new game built off some of the old foundation. I suppose this shouldn't be surprising: Paizo employs game designers; game designers design games; and sooner or later they get tired of working on the old design and feel the need for a new one to work on. (It also allows Paizo to sell material for a new game when the well of the old one starts runnning dry; but I'm trying not to be too cynical, and to follow Luther's stricture on the 8th/9th commandment by putting the best construction on things.)
The silver lining for me? It is 2-fold. First, with the amount of resources I have accumulated I have no need for new products. Second, with my son finishing up his freshman year of High School, I can redirect what I have been spending on Pathfinder towards saving for college. So, thanks?