It's worth pointing out that these games have been worked on for years and all the devs have been doing it while on a proper salary as well. Now branching paths I grant you, those are somewhat tricky to pull off properly but much of this stuff is just basic RPG mechanics.

So really no, it's not unfair at all, when you learn programming even if you don't know their exact back end, you get a very good sense more than most of their software and how they would put everything together. This isn't some little indie dev or one man team hiring outsiders occasionally like me they're a gigantic company with tons of employees.

I suspect like when Elon bought out twitter and we found out just how bad everything was internally I would be pretty horrified learning how they work.

It's worth pointing out that these games have been worked on for years and all the devs have been doing it while on a proper salary as well. Now branching paths I grant you, those are somewhat tricky to pull off properly but much of this stuff is just basic RPG mechanics.

So really no, it's not unfair at all, when you learn programming even if you don't know their exact back end, you get a very good sense more than most programmers of their software and how they would put everything together. This isn't some little indie dev or one man team hiring outsiders occasionally like me they're a gigantic company with tons of employees.

I suspect like when Elon bought out twitter and we found out just how bad everything was internally I would be pretty horrified learning how they work.