I feel 3pp would have felt less pressure to completely change their product lines to match WotC's vision of the moment.
Because they already have 5e material that in this scenario hasn't been functionally erased by WotC's fake non-edition marketing.
I am not seeing any pressure forcing third parties to adapt the new rules: what they made for the old rules still looks fine, even WotC is re-releasing older 5E third party stuff on the Beyond marketlplace.
But the 6th edition would have been exactly the same changes and same amount of editing (based on how I phrased it as only changing the name)? Why is updating it for 5e2024 any different than for 6e? (Except for annoyance factor, which I will admit is a thing).
The label makes a difference. There's no agreed upon label for the two different versions of D&D 5e, so its treated by the industry as nothing more than "newer is better" so far as any changes WotC has made to their 5e rules. If they called it 6e, then 5e would stop as far as WotC is concerned (just like all the previous editions) and 6e would be considered a separate thing any 3pp could make new content for if they wanted. They could also continue to develop the 5e content they had been producing, some of them near a decade.
It's an error of communication of course, not malicious intent. My point was referring to the idea that D&D Beyond should be a roadmap to 3pp because the average gamer is more likely to go there to find stuff about the game than they are somewhere like Enworld. I interpreted your point to being that 3pp doesn't need D&D Beyond to that since 3pp already does fine without WotC's promotion.
if anything it is more erased by not being for the current version
