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Err ...Yeah, exactly. As a programmer I can say this to Renpy. Before that, if you are not a programmer you couldn't build even a simple text game. Renpy has stolen a lot of potential work from programmers, but I've never heard anyone come in and be like, "Oh, you're using renpy, it's depressing me."
In any case, the market today is more competitive than before. And AI just make it a bit cheaper to begin with. This means a lot if you are doing it as a hobby.
I guess you weren't around when the literal adult text games took a nosedive.
Those developers complained about the "new programs that took all their effort and shit on it".
They were referring to RPGMaker and stuff, not RenPy. That was protested a bit later, but not so loud.
Hell for instance it happend "a bit ago" with tailors violently protesting the introduction of steam engines in cloth making.
New technology that is "better" than existing technology comes up, users of the existing technology whine/protest.
As said that story is as old as human advancement itself.
Well ... I don't ultimately know if humans opposed when that strange shiny stuff was replacing their stone tools. No writing back then.
Albeit I imagine Karen called the manager ...