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To those who say "but what about game preservation?":
GenAI slop ruined communities around game preservation. And for every time a AAA dev getting this treatment, there's at least 3 indies getting it worse.
Yep a lot of decomps just get a slop coded version and people stop caring about it because the slop version is "good enough." Most people doing the decomps it's also a hobby project that they're doing for fun as well, the end goal is just a bonus.
There's already a meme that a lot of those decomps are just emulators + ROMs in a single repository.