Those are part of it, but I don't think a main one. Fantasy itself was in a bad place long before either of those. There might be a little life pumped in with every new edition, but the whole game was in a bad place.
Even if we look at copyright, that's a problem Fantasy is still going to have. Assuming they come back in vaguely the same shape as it was when it left. 40k been able to change it up somewhat, but the Empire is still going to be fairly generic looking historical stuff with some fantasy elements. Dwarfs are fairly generic looking fantasy dwarfs, etc.
The lore is fantastic, and going to be one of the main selling points. Plus I really don't want them to change the look. I really don't want them to try and make it look like AoS. That would defeat the whole point of bringing it back I think.
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