Which is to say, I am clearly part of the problem here.

If they ever release something with the name Dark Sun, it will be that in name only. Disconnected from the original. Even worse than Spelljammer.

sounds like another tumblr "anything I don't like is 'problematic'" take.

It isn't just racism and racist stereotypes (DS halflings as "jungle primitives" as one example), but a history of extensive genocides, widespread cannibalism, pervasive oppression and slavery, systematic forced breeding to create the Mul player race...

All wrapped up in a very violent grim-meathook-future milieu.

Any one of these could be fixed without neutering the setting, but probably not all (or even most) of them at once. Even with the most respectful approach to the material, by the time you were done fixing, it just wouldn't be Dark Sun.

I mean 5e is less broken than 2e so maybe it would be OK (that's not a high bar, to be fair).

Hmmm, thanks for the feedback, will try to resist the urge to splurge.

Over all yes the whole thing came across as very weak and half hearted but of course it's freaking Spelljamming so it still sold very well despite being a weak product.

(It's pay what you want, so you can pay zero if you want to try it out.)

This was written by a DM friend of mine who also runs an excellent podcast, if y'all are into that :)