We have had Widlemoint, we have had Witch light, we have had the many Settings of the Radiant Citadel.
Mostly, third parties have absolutely exploded with Settings in the past decade, and at this point WotC is putting those up on Beyond.
Just clarifying the timeline, I honestly don't know what it means: but the most explicit Dark Sun test came well after the shakeup Ayoub was describing.
They have said there is physical material being provided to retailers for DMs to run games in store...but realistically, if they are going to do a lot, digital of some sort seems inevitable
Well, I posted that mere hours before Dan Ayoub publicly laid out WotC commitment to announcing whole year slates at GenCon every year starting this year. So vague speculation overtaken by concrete data pretty much immediately.
You know what I don't know if the "nobody reads the DMG" meme still applies in the 2024 era? Maybe some don't, but the new DMG does not seem to be in general as ignored as the 2014 one was.