This sounds like a good idea, until you look at what happened with Rotten Tomatoes. You would get DMs being dumped on because someone didn't like their politics, or gender, or the colour of their skin, and any other bad reason you can think of.
Generally sound ideas, and we will probably see some of this in (and to coincide with) the new rulebooks. But it still has to be paid for. And if your products are too heavily skewed towards beginners, then experienced players are not going to want to pay for them. You are heading back to the 1979 situation of splitting your product line into "Basic" and "Advanced" versions.
Would that really be a bad thing?
From a commercial point of view, splitting the product line is bad, yes. And we have seen just yesterday that Hasbro are struggling to break even. If they went under it would be pretty disastrous for D&D as a game. The brandname is the only asset with real value.
Your overwhelming, unjustified cynicism will never be a persuasive reason to stop trying to make things better. "There's no point, people are just wicked and you can never ever do anything to address that except by forcefully coercing them to obey" is a pernicious and, frankly, dangerous position regardless of whether it applies only at the level of pretend elfgames or any other aspect of human life.
Horizontal market segmentation says hi.
And yet Rotten tomatoes remains relevant today.
I would see it shut down, it has brought disaster to far too many good and decent people already.
Meh. It works perfectly fine most of the time. Is there problems? Sure. But, most of the time? It's fine.
It certainly does not “work fine” when it punishes the innocent.
Finally got to this.
