To the people seeing here changes were necessary to make the game more accessible or palatable to casual players, we have evidence that you're just wrong. 5e is already the most popular version of d&d. It is the first system of a huge number of people. A lot of folks seem to just equate RAW with a hardcore experience but 5e is the system that made d&d mainstream. There is no reason to think that changing it is going to meaningfully boost sales to people who don't like complex rules, because those people probably aren't looking at this game to begin with. And I do not get why so many people are giving Larian the benefit of the doubt with these changes when they are entirely in line with every other design decision they've made up to this point.
