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we will never know, I am not sure how that is relevant though. If people did not like what WotC is selling, they would not buy it, so sales still show that they like it.no it doesn't...
5e grew in a huge boom when D&D got brought back into the zeitgeist of popular culture... there is no reason to believe that exact same boom would not have happened if the rules of 2e, 3e, or 4e were in place when the pop culture thing happened.
The thing we do not know is whether they would also have managed to get this kind of growth with e.g. 4e due to external factors, i.e. we do not know of the growth is because of 5e or if 5e only managed to get out of the way (and whether 4e would have gotten in the way and prevented this kind of growth), but that is not the argument I was making.
Personally I think it is a bit of both, Stranger Things, Critical Role, etc. all help, but I doubt CR would have used eg 4e for their game
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