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You don't owe a corporation anything unless you've signed a contract saying you do. As a company with a product, they need to convince us that we want to give them our money for it. WotC barely even puts out products anymore, so they're not trying to compete, they're either rent-seeking or attempting to drive the competition out so they don't have to put as much effort into their products.The thing is 1.0 was a huge gimme to the D&D consumers. If we ask for OGL 1.0 back, we have to give WOTC/Hasbro something in return for all the lost potential profit we are cutting from them and the allowance of other companies to use 1.0 to compete with them.
Unless someone else is willing to pumping millions into matketing for a D&D clone, a failling 1dND makes the entire D&D ecosystem shrinks. And we lose a lot of what we have gained in 5e. People go back to video games, football, or TV as their main hobbies and the remainers lose.
I always felt that the 5e "Focus on pushing Core books, nostaglia adventures, and half-done supplements" was not sustainable for a modern capitalistic corporation. I was just waiting for something to come. No We as acommunity have to make a counter-offer.
And it can't be "Everything stays the same."
It is also clearly sustainable as-is, because they are doing well as-is. As with any corporation, they want ALL the money, not just ENOUGH money.