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Unity Engine taking a leaf out of reddits book. Lol
Their Twitter is even leaning into the "answering questions" angle. Just frame the backlash as a result of ignorance, rather than people being reasonably upset by a situation they understand perfectly well. Then they dodge inconvenient questions about things like malicious automated downloads. Of course, they're happy to "listen to feedback." Not act on it, of course, but the social media person is happy to scroll past whatever you have to say!
Remember that all these dudes spend most of their week reading each other's linked in posts and jerking each other off.
These things are happening now because it is in vogue among their peers