Assuming you're a regular gamer who likes D&D as it has largely been through most of its history, it absolutely IS an attack on you, Spinachat.
And the Human Garbage Brigade has already gleefully proclaimed that the clown absolutely is me on Twitter. Both to try to do WoTC's bidding in attacking the most effective and important OSR figure standing in their way, and to try to fool regular gamers into thinking it isn't also an attack on them.
Make no mistake: this is Crawford, Perkins et al saying to ALL regular gamers "we have always despised you, and now we think that we don't need you anymore".
Well, they probably dont. I think D&D, if it can have just *one* decent movie made, will no longer need anyone who ever played it, much like Marvel. I have to think they already rake in cash from miniatures (which though useful for D&D I am sure have other people buying them) and video game licensing. I could be wrong there, but I see them as trying to push to an area where their IP is much more important than the game on the table, and they hope to have a massive run of movies and the like and can pretty much forget completely about any fans who built anything.
That is fine with me. Crawford lost me a good long time ago, and he certainly feels he doesnt need me, and the reality is, I do not need him or his version of the game. Between the internet and legions of people inspired by that game, there will always be RPGs to play, and a whole bunch of them might just take up sticking to making games and not having a bone to pick.