Once away from D&D, such as in Traveller, there are characteristic DM's such as Dexterity 9 is +1 DM, and gets used with a check, or skill use. Hits differently than say role-playing it.
True, though Standard Oil is also colonialist in China:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. ... In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard...
VTT's and such were the main focus, notice in this time DTRPG is bought by Roll20, and WOTC is looking for a cut of that money. The crisis part caught them off guard. Even now they are something like 80% of the market, so either way, they couldn't lose.