Hasbro seems to be super short-sighted about this. "How much can we gain for ourselves and shareholders this quarter?", nothing for the longevity of the brands the company owns. Even the internal support structure for the brands they own is toxic. MTG profits can't be used to help D&D, everything is siloed and the only way to get funding is to guarantee growth. The entire point of MTG was to provide a more steady revenue stream between editions of D&D, which has a longer production cycle and relies on one time purchases. The whole Hasbro setup is toxic
Really it's another facet of late-stage capitalism. The C-suite execs burn down a brand while getting paid millions, sell the brand to a zombie hedge fund for millions more, and the hedge fund sells the body parts for pennies on the dollar and brags about it with the former owners at the country club. Meanwhile everyone else gets screwed: the customer with a diminished product, and the worker with layoffs and years of work on something they cared about up in smoke. Once again the greed of a few destroys the work of many