enough of this! I call upon everyone to stop the madness. Stop. Stop. Just stop this.
This is not what we want. Lets not kid are selves this mess will just sell some specialty dice.
Repent I say: follow the true path the your heart. The true path the Tao of  L5R  RPG
Take this vow with me: I swear I will not win a L5R LCG tournament by enlightenment victory {bring all 5 rings into play)  a Peaceful resolution  to the conflict. 
No roll and keep RPG rules No Peace!
We; we made the story of L5R. Let us do so again.

enough of this! I call upon everyone to stop the madness. Stop. Stop. Just stop this.
This is not what we want. Lets not kid are selves this mess will just sell some specialty dice.
Repent I say: follow the true path the your heart. The true path the Tao of  L5R  RPG
Take this vow with me: I swear I will not win a L5R LCG tournament by enlightenment victory {bring all 5 rings into play)  a Peaceful resolution  to the conflict. 
No roll and keep RPG rules No Peace!
We; we made the story of L5R. Let us do so again.

enough of this! I call upon everyone to stop the madness. Stop. Stop. Just stop this.
This is not what we want. Lets not kid are selves this mess will just sell some specialty dice.
Repent I say: follow the true path the your heart. The true path the Tao of  L5R  RPG
Take this vow with me: I swear I will not win a L5R LCG tournament by enlightenment victory {bring all 5 rings into play)  a Peaceful resolution  to the conflict. 
No roll and keep RPG rules No Peace!
We; we made the story of L5R. Let us do so again.

*pushes glasses up nose*
L5R 3e & 4e both specifically call out that called shots do not inflict additional damage and effects are entirely up to the GM.  Tbh I'd say your GM was going easy on you if they let you get insta-kills for a mere 3 raises, but that's not my call.
FA/Attack/Defensive/FD are the elemental stances and now apply to ALL conflicts not just skirmishes.  Conceptually at least, that's alot more interesting.  YMMV.
Any mechanism that involves rolling multiple dice at once for a result will produce a bell-curve of results.  It hasn't gone away, it just looks different and requires you to make interpretative decisions instead of gambling on a single long-shot.  Your wording makes it *sound* like you would prefer the options and choice the new system provides over the old one.  There's nothing interactive about the old method - you set a TN and you got it or you missed it.
But hey, alternatively you could stay angry and ignore the potential advantages of having more than three worthwhile options in a fight.  Your call.
Oh, and I'm sure I could rant for ages about armour in games (particularly rpgs) but let's not go there.  At some point you just have to embrace the particular abstraction that works for the rest of the game.

Bold I'll give Ya 'da Bold
But lets start slowly. I'm nice I don't want to lose anyone on the bumps. And I only skim the non-sense so Magnus said "but it is roll and keep. " I say ---maybe. But where are my Raises! I make 3 raises and I cut the opponent's head off. Where is that. Where are my stances my FA, Normal, Defencive, and FD. where is my void use. Oh i'm a rokugan trained I have a katana. I get to drop 2 not 1 void point to up my damage. Where is my Ijitsu duel. What up with martial arts its kenjutsu. Geez guy that other company did the hard work for you. A 12 and a 6 sider. Might as well be 1 d20. Do I have to explain bell curve odds to you. Really? It was game mechanics not based on random results but simi-predictable results and the interactive capitalization of results. What did I not like you may ask? I did not like spells to much like that old game. I wanted more raw power with mastery being control. Armor make you harder to hit (no) that's that old-old game again. Best way to do armor is with a save roll. (Now where did i get that idea?)  

Bold I'll give Ya 'da Bold
But lets start slowly. I'm nice I don't want to lose anyone on the bumps. And I only skim the non-sense so Magnus said "but it is roll and keep. " I say ---maybe. But where are my Raises! I make 3 raises and I cut the opponent's head off. Where is that. Where are my stances my FA, Normal, Defencive, and FD. where is my void use. Oh i'm a rokugan trained I have a katana. I get to drop 2 not 1 void point to up my damage. Where is my Ijitsu duel. What up with martial arts its kenjutsu. Geez guy that other company did the hard work for you. A 12 and a 6 sider. Might as well be 1 d20. Do I have to explain bell curve odds to you. Really? It was game mechanics not based on random results but simi-predictable results and the interactive capitalization of results. What did I not like you may ask? I did not like spells to much like that old game. I wanted more raw power with mastery being control. Armor make you harder to hit (no) that's that old-old game again. Best way to do armor is with a save roll. (Now where did i get that idea?)  

Considering how FFG is proceeding, does anyone know why this is its own system, instead of a sourcebook for Genesys?  In my mind, it would have made more sense to do that, rather than have a whole new set of dice, and rules.  Especially since L5R's final release will probably be after Genesys.

I Want an RPG! Card game naaaaa! I stop play the ccg when the RPG first edition came out. Roll and Keep, Roll and Keep,  Roll and Keep, Roll and Roll and Keep, Roll and Keep,  Roll and Keep. Roll and Keep, Roll and Keep,  Roll and Keep, Roll and Roll and Keep, Roll and Keep,  Roll and Keep. Don't mess with it. It ain't broke. 4th edition forever! (Mabey fix the monsters.)