Are you me? I desperately wanted to be a game dev growing up. Got to live my dream. Was glad I never had to touch "boring" stuff like finance. Then found out how brutal the industry is.

Agree with your points about IP. If it can be enforced, then IP is going to be the sole differentiator of these AI "holodeck" apps. I guess it depends how stuck on certain IPs users are. If new characters and worlds are being created at epic speeds we might not hold them as dear as we think.