Nor has @Wizards_DnD Twitter, and before that they twittered daily:
Somewhere there's a person who said "don't worry, this is all fine, or at worst it will soon blow over."
They probably aren't wrong.
I think the use of chardonnay was classist not sexist. Likely chosen over "beer" because it was an out-of-touch corporate type. While you have a point that pulling someone out a couple rungs down on the chain of command may not be fair, but you are stretching to make this sexist.
Sure, you are allowed to, but the sexism here is not obvious.
I think it's too early to tell. What I know is that it has affected my attitude, and people I know. I got a call from a friend in the industry that I haven't spoken to in over 10 years about this and he's worried, as are the people he knows. To me, that says something. My online gaming group uses third party stuff, so they are looking into other games at the moment because they don't think they'll be able to play them.
One thing to note is that expression and process are separate things. A chart of numbers is expression but the formula used to create that chart is not expression. So you can use the math, just not the chart. All WotC modifiers are: stat - 10, divide by 2, round down.
