No matter our differences, we can all agree that belligerent midwit atheists are the most insufferable of all cunts.
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I really don't disagree with you at all.
In the 90s, my memories of D&D were pretty much just that the same nerdy kids who played video games and were in to science fiction and fantasy ALSO played D&D. My group was 100% male (briefly had one girl, and her presence almost made the whole thing fall apart due to thirst), 100% straight, etc. We were just nerds.
We often had a kind of persecution mentality. The cool kid and girls and others at school made of nerds, so we accepted anyone else who didn't quite fit in.
And yeah, that's basically the story of how D&D turned into a hobby for social misfits rather than people who were into the roleplaying and fantasy elements. Gatekeeping would have been nice, but D&D was kind of set up, at least in my experience, to be anti-gatekeeping. We were desperate for more people!