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The main reason D&D was even a thing in my tabletop groups was brand recognition. It was very hard to get them to try, let alone consistently play, anything else. One time I miraculously got them to play the Heavy Gear RPG version that even Dream Pod 9 basically abandoned in favor of "clix" plastic trash.
Very true. The resurrection system alone is such an unexamined society-breaking plot hole (why would anyone even worry about some king getting assassinated if the royal coffers could easily resurrect them in pretty much any reasonable circumstances, over and over and over?) that I tend to have to house-rule limitations on it or just abolish it altogether for death (and life) to have any reasonable tension in the setting. Left as-is, funerals are like a mockery of how poor a dead person is that can't afford the rez toll and I could imagine some grieving friends and family sometimes threatening the clergy for their pay-to-play miracles.
I still have to call Pathfinder "D&D" around my group.