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Damage types in 5E are largely narrative in function. I fo think using normal D&D stat blocks for this with refluffing will be relatively easy and straightforward: given the terrestrial origins of everything, far future Remnant civilizations being D&D needs who made Iwlbears on purpose is...

With the magic damage types, it doesn't necessarily need to be one-to-one.

Indeed it is! They put a ton of work into this, and it looks to me like it will play well...but as you note about the lack of the slot info on the tables...not quite as tight as the D&D Studio designers make their books? Feels a bit old school, despite the top of the line art resources.

Radiant and Necrotic are also gone, replaced by Radiation and Energy.

Well, hopefully this becomes more widely available soon!

Yes, the 2014PHB sold more: but Tasha's was a hit after the PHB had been selling for 6 years: meaning the audience in 2020 was huge compared to 2014.

No, you got the gist of it.

Rail gun = CONFIRMED And other weapons & equipment (literally each gun is illustrated):

Why do you assume that is the case, though...? Our partial info from BookScan suggests Tasha's was a gargantuan seller.

Based on what, WotC demonstrated tremendous marketing savvy...? Tasha's did sell faster than the 2014 PHB, yes: that's the point.

I got to be honest, you are giving whoever wrote that way too much credit for being clever: it seems more likely that they were just using the word "product" because the PHB is a product, rather than it being a 17 dimensional chess move to convince Forumites the book sold well. Besides which...