Maybe but i think that there would have been a panic surrounding the game regardless. It seems to me that the natural evolution of D&D would have been more or less the same. And to those outside looking in would always be confused and weirded out over a younger generation playing these fantasy settings.
Similarly there’s been generational “panics” over the centuries. Easier access to books because of the press caused a panic, newspapers, coffee (yes really), comics, d&d, videogames, etc.
