As for how its relevant: I would not suggest going the opposed lawsuit direction. If Wizards is willing to burn hundreds of millions on pissing contests, it won't blink twice on spending ones of millions on a lawsuit.
Agreed...although how do we know that WotC/Hasbro has spent hundreds of millions? That's a monstrous amount of cash for a tiny pond industry.
Also, if they did spend that money on their magical AI VTT fantasy metaverse, why worry about the OGL 1.0 because even Paizo isn't capable of spending that kind of money to horn in on their VTT dominance?
As mentioned, DnDBeyond was $150 million.
Per the leaks, they think they can grow their VTT to be a $500 million per year property (which sounds a lot like a clueless exec just took their $100-150 million profits and multiplied it by Cynthia Williams’ “only 20% of the player base buys things” to arrive at a figure… but I never underestimate the stupidity of execs who are chasing money).
The biggest threat they see is the ability of third parties to make better content than they do. So the new OGL and VTT policy are all about preemptively shutting down competition so if you want to game at all it has to be on the gatcha game VTT.
It’s basically the same tactic all the big boys (Google, Microsoft) use of buying out or lawfaring any potential small competitor into oblivion before their better product can get any traction.