Perhaps we should finally admit that copyright has always been nonsense, and abolish this ridiculous measure once and for all

I think AI is very much eroding the legitimacy of copyright - at least to software, which is long been questioned since it's more like math than creative expression.

I think the industry will realize that it made a huge mistake by leaning on copyright for protection rather than on patents.

Probably a wiser approach is to consider different times require different measures (in general!).

I did not study in detail if copyright "has always been nonsense", but I do agree that nowadays some of the copyright regulations are nonsense (for example the very long duration of life + 70 years)