WotC is not the sole 5e market. 5e is now bigger than WotC. WotC tried to shut down the OGL, in part, because they wanted a bigger slice of 3pp money. Kobold Press and other 3rd Party Publishers are creating their own versions of 5e and products that remain compatible with 5e. I don't have to buy WotC products to support them in that endeavor. I can use my limited funds to directly support 3pp who are making 5e products, and 3pp will continue getting more money and support from me than you will probably ever send their way. Moreover, WotC IS NOT ENTITLED TO MY MONEY like you think that they are. I am welcome to spend my money how I please, where I please, and on whom I please. I can spend as much or as little in this hobby as I wish with the money that I have. The impact that my spending choices on WotC products has on the livelihoods of 3pp is exceedingly negligble because I will be supporting the 3pp I like directly rather than rely on the magical thinking of trickle down economics. I guarantee you that I have probably directly supported more 3pp than you ever will.
You can do whatever you want with your money, and I don't think anyone is entitled to your money except those you choose to send it to. If you choose to boycott WOTC you will hurt 3P creators in the process.
As for whether you have or have not supported more 3pp creators,I have no idea. However, I have been supporting 3p RPG creators for 43 years.
The bottom line is that it's bad manipulation to gaslight people.
Yet you are doing exactly that in this post. As a point of fact, right here in this post you are using words like "manipulation" to challenge my logic. That is factually gaslighting.
It's bad emotional manipulation to tell falseholds like that if we don't buy WotC products that we are hurting 3rd party publishers.
If it was a falsehood it would be, but it is not.
Look on this very forum at theposts from a month ago. People pointed out, very correctly, that the OGL helped WOTC, was responsible for its growth and the growth of the entire community. We grew together! Without that we will all suffer together.
It is as true now as it was when people were saying it earlier this year.
It's bad emotional manipulation when you directly tell a 3rd Party Publisher in this thread that they are being bad for not buying WotC products. It's bad emotional manipulation when you engage in false equivalence arguments like in this quote.
I never said anyone was being "bad". I believe the only time I used the term "bad" was as a qualifier for manipulation, trying to point out the hypocrisy in the argument that it is ok to manipulate people for one goal but not another.
What I have said is it hurts 3P creators. I believe that statement and I stand by it, but I have not said it is "bad".