"Hasbro's toy sales are down so they're trying to wring more money out of D&D"
"why are their toy sales down? did a show with a weird freak burst of popularity among an older fanbase with toy-buying income end a couple years back or some-oooooooh."
there are other factors, but
A) I would argue that a sudden new audience fading away definitely hit their bottom line a good amount and
B) it's much funnier to say this is all Princess Celestia's fault
listen here you little shit, I don't give a damn who you are, if you keep putting the blame on me, Equestria could stand to have a second moon.
okay I was gonna respond to this with a joke about what the DC for Moon Time would be under 5th edition but then it made me go see if there was a MLP secret lair over in Magic
there's two of them
anyway this whole thought process brought to you by me learning there was a planned G4.2 because they wanted to retreat back to FiM, because Hasbro's scared of changing things, which is why Transformers is back on G1 every other year and why D&D now has some sort of Forever Edition