Imaro
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Try parsing the sentence again, factoring out the nots: /if/ you ONLY every played D&D, 4e might fail the MAYA test for you. Or, alternately, if you had played a lotta different games, 4e likely passed the MAYA test for you.
Point being, 4e did a lot of radical, "new," 'narrativist'/'gamist'/'dissociative'/etc things that, in fact, lots of games other than D&D had been doing for decades. D&D is an industry laggard when it comes to innovation, in other words.
I assumed that the MAYA test would be whether it felt familiar as D&D... I have played a ton of non-D&D games but I don't think they factored in much on whether 4e felt familiar or not when I cracked open 4e and got ready to run a D&D game. YMMV and all that of course.