1. No, I didn't. I stated that in direct response to you, when you were again complaining about your lack of "inclusion" and how people were "excluding" you as the "minority" and concerns about "personal safety."
Not my personal safety, as should be clear from the context, following 'commercial success.'
And minority in the literal, statistical, not political sense: a /small/ segment of the fanbase. Neither h4ter nor 4venger were a majority nor even plurality - WotC's own polling showed most fans were fans of the line, not a specific edition. So, they were, indeed, two minorities, both wishing to be included, but one insisting that the inclusion of the other would exclude them.
Comparing your travails over the lack of a warlord in 5e to people that are truly discriminated against is offensive to me. I do not appreciate that parallel language, but that's me.
It's interesting how fast this shifted from being about the topic and the supposition I put forth, to being about me, personally.
During the playtest WotC used 'inclusiveness' when talking about that goal, and 4e fans being a 'tiny minority' has come up a lot. So I don't think I was saying anything that prone to misinterpretation. But, no, to be clear /I/ was not comparing my travails as a minority voice in the D&D community, to my travails as a minority in the demographic sense.
And, no, we should /not/ proceed to comparing our places in the kyriarchy. It's not relevant to the Essence of D&D, is it? Really, /nothing/ about me, as a person, is.
2. I don't appreciate you trying to, again, be flippant about this given the context. But to be clear, 5e has, in an official capacity, made great strides in trying to be as inclusive as possible, in terms of communities that were previously marginalized by TSR/WOTC. Thanks.
Which should not have been relevant in this discussion, really. I get it, WotC didn't carry through with one of many overly ambitious Next goals, 5 years into 5e. "Oh, but they did this much more important and socially relevant thing" Yes. They did. It's They're just two separate things. Parallel language notwithstanding.
But what was that to do with the "Essence of D&D?"