Dire Bare
Legend
Not all D&D influencer videos are about "fixing" some aspect of D&D.My only point (poorly made, I admit) is that many games have solved almost all the "problems" the D&D influencers are trying to provide solutions for their audience. I'm not even saying that the influencers should say "play that game instead." I just think it would be cool, because of the outsized influence of D&D and its social media proponents, if those influencers would acknowledge that these other games exist and are good to mine ideas from.
For those types of videos . . . a solution created by the influencer themselves, or a solution created by someone else the influencer is promoting . . . is just fine. No, they shouldn't feel obligated to find some other game that has already "solved" the problem in order to be a "good" D&D influencer.
If an influencer happens to be familiar with another game that "solves" the problem at hand, and can be adapted to D&D . . . well, sure, why not? But this isn't superior to the above, just different.
Your original example of "Why didn't Ginni D mention that FATE has already solved this?!?!" is the disconnect that has got so many to push back against your initial post. Why didn't she? All sorts of possible reasons . . . she isn't familiar with FATE. She is familiar with FATE, but doesn't care for it. Familiar or not, she felt her audience would not appreciate mixing FATE with D&D. Or . . . she just didn't want to. It's all valid. Just as valid as if she had created a video adapting FATE mechanics to D&D.