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Speaking as a powergamer, this is absolutely true. When I want to go with a strong build, I pull out the PHB. When I want to self-police my power level and play more to concept, I use 3PP.There is certainly a particular type of player who wants official product because there's an expectation that anything from the canon is 'allowed' which frees their inner munchkin to power game and optimize the crap out of something, thereby proving their system mastery and fitness as gatekeepers to the one true way.
Something you might have missed (or you might consider it to be included in what you have) is availability. As a DM, I strongly prefer for my players to be able to go to roughly any convenient game store and find the books I'm allowing options from. While there are some third-party sources that are pretty easy to find, they're more the exception than the rule.
First off, great post.Canon. This is always a touchy issue, but fans care deeply about this. What is, and isn't, "true" within the setting of the story? What is canon for the Buffyverse? For Star Trek? For Star Wars? For the Orville? Given the distinction between "official product" and "fan product" (and the hazy area of 3PP) the desire for official product that will provide more (and updated) "canon" is always there.
Go to a store for RPG stuff? This is 2020! We have DriveThruRPG.com! It's all right there, man!
Yup, pretty much. I've mostly gotten bored with 5e optimization honestly. It's not that complicated, and I really don't find it immensely fun any more. Now, if I have a new idea about how to power some awesome synergy that's different, but I'm pretty done pairing GWM and PAM to max DPR and a bunch of other three letter acronyms. My concept builds are generally acronym free.Speaking as a powergamer, this is absolutely true. When I want to go with a strong build, I pull out the PHB. When I want to self-police my power level and play more to concept, I use 3PP.
This isn't to say there isn't plenty of problematic 3PP (there is!), but when I've gone to the trouble of finding something I like and getting DM buy-in, I'm going to make extra sure I'm not being a donkey-hole about it.