It’s certainly possible. But a strong counterpoint to it happening is 4e. 4e had a very aggressive release schedule, and that yet it was still the first time in ages that D&D was no longer the best-selling, most-played RPG. Even corporate heads can understand those metrics.
To be fair (and I know there's no impetus to be fair to 4e, but just try'n fake it, folks), it was with the announcement of Essentials (a "half-ed" after only 2 years), that PF started beating D&D in some quarters, and solidly did so when the post-Essentials releases had be scaled back substantially.
That had nothing to do with the release schedule and everything to do with the huge division it caused in the player base. 5e not only healed many of those divisions, thanks to social media, D&D has exploded, even compared to the first successful years of D&D 5e.
Yet the correlation between aggressive release schedules/edition churn & failure is there: 2e, 3e & 4e all had rapid releases, an arguable 'half' ed, and all ended badly (though obviously, not all equally badly, the company folding is hard to beat, and 3e was just tapering off - and went on, as PF, to continue kicking ass for years). While 1e & 5e had slow releases and sold like crazy.
Sure, it's a fad-comeback cycle, but never let cycles get in the way of trend lines. It's always different, this time.
Anyone think that Ravnica will have a Magic style of casting spells?
Would M:tG style of spellcasting be even more convenient, less limiting & more flexible than neo-Vancian? Because you can't seem to add/change casting methodology in D&D if it doesn't make things better for the casters...
