The irony of it is Wizards is very clearly afraid of a second Pathfinder scenario, where their fans are pissed at an edition changes/changes and turn to third parties to keep playing the game they like after Wizards stops supporting it.

And all they've done is encourage people to do just that.

And it's baffling. I thought OneDnD was supposed to be 5E+ or something? If the new game is meant to be backwards compatible, then why would anyone turn explicitly to third parties? The game they have should still be viable if they want to keep playing it.

This is the second time in 2 years Wizards has somehow managed to have a message so mixed, it not only creates all their problems but makes them look super scummy because now I guess they were lying about their goals for OneDnD? Or not? IDK. Doesn't seem like they have any idea what they're trying to sell. They sure want to be the only ones selling whatever it is.