Hussar
Legend
Yeah, because we're seeing droves of people dropping out of the game? Totally shown by the record breaking sales of books and the huge growth of player bases on things like Fantasy Grounds or Roll20.Simplicity might help bring in new players, but it doesn't do much to keep them.
I really gotta ask where your evidence is that 5e is failing to keep players.
Also, just to add to my last point about playing different games:
@Celebrim said:I find that even playing 25-30 times a year, we only go up 2 levels or so a year. A 1-30 campaign for me would be like 15 years with the same group gaming every other week. I'd have grandkids by then.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you really, really don't have your finger on the pulse of what a typical table looks like.