Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
I think our current landscape would have come sooner, in fact, because people wouldn't have had to fight 10 years of the d20 glut for ideas like PbtA or FATE to appear.
And yet these alternate systems are a tiny drop in the bucket of RPGs. Sometimes these types of systems feel like the hipster, cool, anti-mainstream games that only certain types of people "get", let alone play. And yes, a lot of them only exist in a way that does not bankrupt the creators because of the internet and sites like Kickstarter, which did not even launch until 2009.