"It wasn’t on my radar that the most reputable indie engine might be silently laying the groundwork for a moustache-twirling betrayal next year." is a great quote.
It may not have been obvious at the time he chose Unity for his project.
> in 2019 Unity went out of their way to say, and cement in their Terms of Service, that “When you obtain a version of Unity, and don’t upgrade your project, we think you should be able to stick to that version of the TOS.”
I suspect a lot of small shops were just toiling away trusting that when they first evaluated and decided on Unity they made the right decision. I bet less than 1% were reading ToS changes whenever they had to click the button.