Roose Bolton
Son of Katas
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Yes and on the flip side, HBO has made his intellectual property more popular than it would have ever been. It's a give-and-take thing and not one-sided. Both GRRM and HBO benefit from how things have turned out. If HBO wants it, Rhaegar and Robert's Rebellion will happen and they will put pressure on him. They continued with finishing the show even though the books haven't finished yet. That should tell you all you need to know.
That's a D&D decision. HBO has made it clear on quite a few occasions that they would have preferred the show go on for roughly 10 seasons, (which would have given them more time to actually work through all the published book material) but ceded to D&D's choice of only 8. And while GRRM expressed disappointment in himself for not getting TWOW out fast enough, he's said that he's not going to ask D&D to compromise their storytelling for his sake. The whole thing speaks more to the respect HBO and GRRM have for D&D than it does HBO's lack of respect for GRRM.
Likewise, there is the simple fact that HBO are going forward with 5 spinoffs and none of them are Robert's Rebellion and Dunk & Egg. It would be more immediately profitable for them, but they chose to go another way because they know it's not what GRRM wants. HBO know that it's far better for them in the long run to work with him than against him.