As a long-time play-by-poster of D&D, yes, it still dominates the TTRPG crowd. I branch out to other game systems myself, but always have at least two or three

As a long-time play-by-poster of D&D, yes, it still dominates the TTRPG crowd. I branch out to other game systems myself, but always have at least two or three D&D games going. The game itself is not hated, just the company, and there are enough free resources available online that anyone can play the game without giving WotC a single dime. As far as we're concerned, the game belongs to the players and WotC are nothing more than Interlopers. Check out https://5e.tools/ https://5e.tools/ for an example of a good free, self-hostable resource.