D&D (2024) How extensive (if any) will be the PHB errata?

[Ruin Explorer]

My thought is that if they were (a) aware of it and (b) considered it enough of a problem to errata, they would have already fixed it.

The issue is largely (a).

From the nature of the specific issues, I think (a) is true in almost none of the cases, and for the handful where it is, I don't know if they've made a correct assessment re: (b).

Re: errata, this is WotC so here is my prediction.

1) WotC just stays silent on this until well after the 2024 actual release - that's more than month away.

2) Most of this stuff won't become a major issue until weeks/months after then, when people actually start playing D&D 2024. A lot of these issues will immediately become pretty major at that point, because the internet exists, and players will rapidly hear about them, or groups will trip over them anyway. And some of this stuff is pretty clunky.

3) Crawford and/or Perkins will make some vague statements in interviews about how rules are being misunderstood or misinterpreted, implying it is the fault of the people reading the book, and bad faith, and not acknowledging that, actually, these are mostly badly-written or ill-considered rules (the Nick stuff particularly is no way the fault of "bad faith"). At best they will say something like "We hope to clarify them in coming months".

4) No clarification will be forthcoming in said months.

5) A 2025 or 2026 rulebook will fix some of the problems (likely including Nick) and bizarrely ignore others. At the same time a digital errata will come out, primarily to prevent people saying "You have to buy [Book X] to fix your game!".