Faolyn
(she/her)
It's what happens when you learn about D&D from someone else but then never go to look up RPGs in general, aren't active on gaming forums, and either don't buy any books yourself or don't buy them from gaming stores.But if you play other games, that's reasonable and means you are open to something else.
I have seen some people say in threads (on other forums, I don't recall any saying that here) that they only wish to play D&D in one incarnation or another. I also saw some Youtube videos that suggested new games to play after the OGL debacle, and people thanked the creator, because they didn't even know other games existed.
That's the kind of thing that really makes me scratch my head.
I have a friend who only got into gaming with 5e. The rest of us recently compiling lists of all of our non-D&D games, and they were just slack-jawed in amazement because we had so many, they had never heard of most of them, and knew almost nothing about the games they had heard of. Fortunately, they're more than willing to try other systems and we just had a nice introductory session of SWADE last Friday.
(Personally, I'm glad to be getting back into non-D&D games--I enjoy(ed) playing it, but I like a variety in my settings and systems.)