@pare It's partially a problem of monetization, but it's also a content quality and quantity problem.
3.5 had a *plethora* of books. Wanna do forgotten realms? Here's a full sourcebook on it (a pretty good one, if I recall), and a pile of splat books and paperbacks for it, for example. Nowadays, you get one book, maybe two *if you're lucky.*
Granted, more books is not necessarily the way out, yes - but when even the current books make 'anemic' look good? Plus the AI art fiasco, the OGL fiasco, the whole Hadozee thing. And then part of their solution is to lay off a ton of their most senior, experienced people!
They may be stuck in a field of rakes, but. Bluntly? They put most of those rakes there themselves.