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100% this. I did the same, and it's just oodles of complexity. I also worked at a large computer games company which pursued doing 3D world building tools for "everyman" and it's doable, but the WORK involved is tedious. The prep is multitudes worse than anything else a GM might otherwise do...

I meant in relation to this thread and the idea of WotC buying Foundry (which makes, like, no sense at all).

Yes, completely agreed in the case of ARcana and its ilk, that the graphics are the point. But my post was in reference to e.g. Jaeger complaining about other VTTs (which I took to mean Roll20, Fantasy Grounds and Foundry in particular).

Did everyone miss that WotC bought D&D Beyond this morning?

I think the point about VTTs not being graphically impressive is a misunderstanding of the primary purposes of VTTs. It isn't to make TTRPGs more like CRPGs or more "impressive". It's first and foremost to allow for people to play remotely with one another. The graphical side of that is...