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Are you talking about 5E content creators, or people using the OGL to create OSR games? Because while there is some woke virtue-signaling in the OSR community, like everywhere else, it's mostly a bastion of grognard greybeards who want nothing to do with that nonsense. GaryCon and CyclopsCon and NTRPGCon and a bunch of others I could name have stayed politically neutral and are quite welcoming of "people like you" (unless you're, like, dropping n-bombs at the table or going all murderhobo with a Lawful party).
Also, 1E > 2E.
2e had all the good settings though. I love Planescape and Dark Sun.
Mechanically, the core rules are practically identical though. You could have a party of 1e and 2e players in the same game and it would mostly go off without a hitch. The main difference is that 2e sanitized all the "evil" and "demonic" parts of 1e to make it more marketable to scared Christian house wives.
Yeah, I never understood the fuss about THAC0, but as an owner of the original Deities and Demigods (before they had to remove the Moorcock, Lovecraft, and Lieber pantheons because lol what's IP infringement? man, those were the days...) I resented the scrubbing of demons and devils to placate all the angry moms. I was precocious when it came to sensing culture war bullshit.
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