I don't think this is true. People are lazy, they won't want to make all the creative decisions and play test to figure out what is fun.

What is true is that the price points are going to be affected, the economics have changed.

So the problem is that “people” writ large can be lazy, it only takes one person with initiative to open source your closed source software.

I just got let go from my job, and I was thinking yesterday about trying to start a startup around a piece of software I wrote on the side that I think has a market. But I also know that if my marketing page gets posted on HN it’s curtains for that business (since the main thing I’d be selling is software).

I think we can all agree that software is valuable, in that it provides value to us. And I know a lot of us hate when a company that should be “just providing software” tries to “pivot to services” or find another unnecessary way to get their hooks into us. But if making good software is no longer a way to make money, then the only companies left will be the ones providing “services”.

Agreed, people are lazy. So lazy, in fact, that they will try to "Make a game like WoW but in space" over and over again until the tools are good enough to simply do it.

They don't need to make all the decisions, they will take what the tool spits out and that will be the "content". For more content, they will just say, "Make an expansion and do something with black holes" and it'll be done.

Why would I buy your game when I can make my game exactly how I want it.

But they're cloning things.

There is no creative decision making. And in fact, the less creativity, probably the better result--because the models are great with an exact specification.