Yeah, people are massively overreacting.

Single player PC games are a small fraction of the market these days, and once people have a job, they are generally happy to pay for the things they like.

I think the "clean room" Photoshop example is much more interesting because Photoshop is far more expensive and Adobe has a semi-antagonistic relationship with creatives.

Photoshop already has alternatives (including open source ones) that can replace it. I'm more interested in seeing if this helps make commercial software without multiple free alternatives more accessible.

What I hope is that we don't just end up with a bunch of vibe coded clones, that may or may not contain AI introduced bugs or even malware, that get uploaded without being run/tested and then become instantly abandoned. Instead, I hope that AI's ability to help decompile software helps people develop open source projects that are maintained and further developed to go beyond what the commercial software was capable of.