None of my friends or colleagues have ever played DnD. We've all heard of this game, but we've never played it. Please, your experience is not universal. This is also affected by the country in which you were born. So yea, rly.
That is the most stupid statement I have heard for a long time indeed. As for each country in Europe now I do not know what they play, but I doubt a colleague will come to you on break and say hey I played D&D 10 years ago or I am now playing.
When I come to a workplace do you think I have D&D mentioned in my CV or that I talk about with my work colleagues? No.
I also have friends that are not into gaming at all at any platform and a some friends that if they play they use console like Playstation or Xbox.
Personally I have never played newest D&D 5th edition but I have now read through Players Handbook DD5th for this game.
None of my friends have ever played any Larian released game. I played DOS2, but never finished it.
Now my brother and one friend of my mine have told me they want to play Baldurs Gate 3 with me because it is Dungeons Dragons. However they are not so interested they want to buy it while it is in Early Access.
Roughly 40% of my friends have played D&D. 0% of my friends have played any Larian released game.
If you take all D&D releases the amount of players that have played any version of them that exceed DOS2 players by far.