Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=321449
For over a grand you can get a certificate that allows PHB +2.
If he raises $500,000 Season 9 will be PHB +2 for everyone! Just for Season 9.
Guess what thu, if that is not going to break the game, then that means they know PHB +1 is completely unneeded and unwarranted, because they wouldn't make this offer if it was going to cause problems.
don't get me wrong raising money for charity is good and I hope he raises $500,000 either way, but the rule should be PHB +2 period, either way because if the rule isn't needed, that you can discard it without problems or concerns, means it's only exists to punish those of us who buy more then one product with player options. This makes no sense.
Again I hope he succeeds in raising the money, but it's time this bad rule goes, either way.
I think you are laboring under two misapprehensions.
First, that there is only one reason for the rule, balance. AL, where you don't need to know any existing gamers or pay to go to a convention and can just walk into any FLGS on the assigned night and give D&D a try, is the absolute easiest on-road to a new player trying out D&D. You don't have a barrier to entry that you need to have multiple books to create a competitive character. Keeping AL easy to join, and this keeps it that way in terms of financial investment needed to be a level playing field.
Second, having a few players who are allowed ONE extra source over the PHB +1 base is a whole different ball-game then allowing all player to have access to all sources. The designed have gone on record that they design around PHB + 1 - it is very possible for power combinations to come out of the ingenuity of the full player base when combining from lots of different sources that the designer missed. Is this just a truth, unless every source have a huge playtest like the D&D Next rules. And even there, they couldn't test the final set of rules without giving them all away "for free".
As a side note, the rule isn't a D&D rule. It's an AL rule. It can "go away" as easily as running/playing in any game that isn't AL.