I've seen an awful lot of lobbying for A through Z over the last few years, some of it quite bitter, and done in a vacuum of expectations that doesn't even acknowledge all the other, similar lobbying going on at the same time--sometimes even the same topic.
Part of what scares me about the process is that for the next 18-or-so months -- or until individual issues get settled -- D&D communities may be stuck in non-stop edition wars (or The Great 5e Cold War) as we try to navigate through the minefield of everyone passionately and for legitimate reasons advocating on behalf of their favorite parts of their D&D games while many times advocating against everyone else's. Even if we don't need to do the latter.
I hope D&Ders prove me wrong but at this point I am not really holding my breath.