Well the pragmatic, if dire and cynical view is this: who cares? At this point if WotC memory-holes everything pre-5e, there is nothing anyone can do to stop them. And likely this is the direction they're going to go in varying degrees, going forward.
As I've said personally, D&D left me. Let me amend that to "us" (that care).
I'll be happy in the graveyard with my dead-trees. The horses and genies have all left the lamp-shaped barn inside the giant open tube of tooth-paste called D&D, that has been squashed flat by WotC's culturally Marxist bootheel. And hey! people love it. So good on them?
I mean how many times do we have to be slapped to understand they're telling us "WE" are not their targeted audience. The message is clear, so why support those that hate us? /shrug
Who is this "we" you're talking about? Are you talking about from-my-cold-dead-hands conservatives who want to MAGA-back to the 1950s? Or are you talking about the folks across the political spectrum who are concerned with censorship? If the former, yeah, I think "you" are not their target audience, because you represent a relatively small minority of D&D players. If the latter, WotC better keep "us" in mind, because we are a significant poriton of their book-buying audience.
My guess is that the vast majority of D&D players don't care; they just want to roll dice and kill things (yes, orcs).
Then there are the "traditionalists" who don't want things to change. The flexible ones are OK with new stuff (e.g. non-evil orcs), as long as the traditional variants are kept alive and supported.
Then there are the ''change-everything-ists" who want everything re-written to conform to "woke" ideology. The flexible ones are OK with the traditional stuff remaining in the books, as long as they are re-contextualized within more diverse presentations.
There are extremists on either side: traditionalists who will vituperate if D&D isn't exactly the way its always been (even though its always been changing); and the wokists who will never stop looking for signs of racism and gatekeeping, and once they're done with orcs and drow, will move on to hobgoblins and duergar. Neither group will end up being happy with whatever WotC does, because WotC will almost certainly cater to the majority of folks who can meet somewhere in the middle.