“But”, says some rational part of my brain, “D&D will probably do a TERRIBLE job mechanically representing the things that made the idea interesting in the first place.”
And that’s super, duper true. D&D is probably going to suck at making it anything but a pile of hot points or some damage dice.
But…who cares? It will be a brief moment of a shiny, exciting thing, and then we’ll be onto the next one.