RPGPundit, why haven't you done a 5e version of Arrows of Indra?
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.
TSR D&D fans were kicked out of D&D in 2000. Instead of AD&D 3e (aka something akin to Castles & Crusades), we got something incompatible with the TSR editions and were shown the door LOOOOOONG before 4e came out. Once the OSR happened, the TSR fandom and new OSR fandom went their way.
I like 4e (not as D&D, but as a tactical fantasy RPG/board hybrid), but WotC's culture and business model tosses aside the previous edition fandom, so WotC shitting their own bed doesn't involve me anymore.
In fact, I want WotC to accelerate their crazy train.
And the Human Garbage Brigade has already gleefully proclaimed that the clown absolutely is me on Twitter.
I agree (the pipe is the tell), but there's enough not-you in the depiction for the Twatterites to turn on a dime and be shocked that you imagine WotC ever thinks about you.
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".
It just mirrors the cultural fragmentation in the USA (and beyond). We have a resident in the White House who has this exact attitude for half the nation. There's no future where the culture is reunited, and our hobby is a microcosm of that.
GenCon and Kickstarter are one step away from openly declaring they only exist for those who adhere to doubleplus goodthink. Hopefully, WotC will become even more vocal about who is allowed to play their elf game.