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Is the US situation that bad regarding game diversity ?
I am in a very active club, and less than half of the games are D&D and clones (including pathfinder and OSR in D&D and clones), before that I was part of an active online community, and again while D&D was big it wasn't more than half of the game ran.
And if you look at new games starting, due to D&D tendency to be relatively long campaign, it's even hard to find a seat at a D&D game because relatively few games starts compared to other games. (And then there is a couple of indie-game one-shots GM, meaning that there is always a slot open for a less known and often weirder game)
Roll20 stats one year showed primarily 5e, but that's also what it works best with (in my opinion), and I think general sentiment has changed for d&d generally. My group started with 5e, but we haven't really played it much recently. My first group we never did d&d, though started and never finished multiple. So I don't think so, but it's one of the more popularized options.