Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
I don't think many people objected to the passage of time in the setting when it was moving forward at a relatively reasonable rate from 1e through 3e (the "present" date moved from 1357 DR to 1375 DR during that time, with a small jump in the setting every few years of real life time). It was only the massive time jump a century into the future in 4e that really caused waves...
Not sure how many people are aware of this outside of regular Adventurer's League players and DMS, but with the arrival of 5E, for every year that passes in the real world, a year also passes in the Realms. This was done for continuity in the AL seasons, to prevent having multiple storylines taking place at the same time, which in some cases would cause conflict between stories/seasons. So the current year in the Realms is 1493. And I am sure this constant passage of time in the Realms annoys some people too.