This 100%. I worked for an enterprise software vendor and even though our product was expensive and open source options existed that did the same thing, the support, maintenance, compliance certifications, etc is what people pay for. The vibe-coded clones might get feature parity, but now support and compliance is totally on the teams using the software.

That’s easy- software patents.

No one would argue anything about the source code. The game assets, however, are still protected under copyright law.

I cancelled YT Premium and use Morphe to patch the official YouTube/YT Music apps. Worth looking at. morphe.software