"All this bad press and WotC announce a Paramount deal for a D&D TV series right now???"
Look. Remember how many nerds were willing to suck a breath in through their teeth and feign concern about the Riot Games lawsuits?
...remember how they all evaporated the second the Arcane cartoon dropped?
Remember how many nerds were willing to suck a breath in through their teeth and feign concern about the CDPR neo-Nazi staff members and Gamergate memes in public PR and the general sustained CP2077 transphobia?
...remember how they mostly evaporated when the game dropped, most of the rest went about a year after launch when there was a concerted effort to bleat that it was A Good Game Actually, and then they all crawled back out of the woodwork with heart-eyes when the Edgerunners cartoon dropped?
"Oh they announce a TV series deal rn???" Smartest thing they've done in days, if you know nerds
Also note how the official WotC comms have adopted the successful strategy they previously employed re: people inconveniently remembering that Mearls doxxes trans women to abusers:
Total radio silence.
Nothing says position of power like the ability to maintain stony fuck-off silence and get away with it.