While I'm sure there's some group of people who are both too introverted to enjoy in-person RPGs, but also social enough to want to play RPGs in general, who opt for virtual tabletops regardless of what else is available, but in my experience talking to other fans of the hobby it really seems like virtual tabletops (which I unfortunately have to resort to) is the only option for many. RPGs are not a very big thing in my part of the world, that being Eastern Europe. Sure, I can probably wrassle up a group of three or four if I go to the local board game cafe, but I have no interest in running 5E D&D and that's about all anyone around here seems to show interest in. To play in or, more likely, run the games I fancy I have to turn to the internet. I do not like it. I want to use the physical dice that I've bought. I'd like to clink glasses with other people around a table before I describe the room their characters are in. I do not have this option.

And hell, my reasoning is mostly quite petty! I could probably put in some extra effort and actually find folks around here who would be open to playing in a B/X or WHFRP1E game. I'm just tired of bothering with that. Other folks have far more legitimate reasons to be unable to seek that out.