Unreal is open source, although it isn’t free. I would certainly prefer it to unity though.

It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable.

That honestly wouldn’t surprise me at this point. I can’t imagine advertisers are very happy about his terrible leadership. If he makes a few more blunders I think things could go south pretty fast. Especially with threads being a potential alternative that has a lower barrier to entry than something like mastodon, it would be a smoother transition than it would be otherwise.

Maybe its just wishful thinking, but I do think the death of twitter is a possibility.

I was under the impression he had a lot of control over spacex but less so over Tesla. Two google searches may not be the most thorough of research, but I don’t really want to devote more of my time to him.

Stealing implies you are taking something from someone, not making a copy of it.