The Perpetual Golden Age of RPGs

This post is driven by some YouTube stuff I saw recently but it's been showing up anywhere people discuss RPGs - forums, social media, reddit ... everywhere. The "it" is the shocking discovery that there are a lot of other games out there besides D&D! Really? Incredible! I know that new people come into the hobby all the time and that's a good thing. I know that D&D is the first encounter for a…