Regardless of motivation, spending the money to translate the 5.1 SRD into four languages and then putting it out into the CC opens up a lot of expansion of 5e into other countries and people who never would otherwise play. And it does so regardless of what WOTC does in the future. It’s prudent that we don’t trust WOrC. With this out there, we don’t have to trust them.

Yeah, I don't know how anyone who paid attention during the OGL fiasco could say they are being a good partner to the hobby. This is all just backpedaling from that disastrous move. I welcome it, but let's not rewrite history.

As for being good stewards of D&D, I think the next edition is shaping up to be an overly cautious iteration on what's already there, and they're unwilling to make changes of any major significance in order to fundamentally improve the game.

After the OGL debacle and seeing the extreme risk aversion of this new version and the questionable direction of the changes they do want to make, I decided to move on from 5E as my main system. I'm currently running a 5E campaign to level 20 which should wrap by the end of the year, after 4 years. I've run another multiyear 5E campaign, played in others, bought the books...

I'll check back in for the edition after this one.

FYI paizo has in the past been accused of being a toxic/hostile work environment by many employees. So much so that a portion of their employees unionized a while back. Don't know if it's still the same, but just for what it's worth, paizo isn't necessarily the shining knight some people will make it out to be.

Probably still not as bad as wotc in that regard, but still something to remember.