Every copyright/patent lawsuit is about an huge corporation trying to step on smaller businesses because they "own" some idea. The theory that it serves to protect small inventors from being ripped off is just fantasy.
Anyone using words like chuds and simps that seek validation of their appearance on Reddit is merely projecting.
He is using the word "simp" in a context that has nothing to do with women trying to distort the word meaning (sucker idolizing mediocre pussy) just like they tried to distort the word "incel" (involuntary celibate) to mean anyone they don't like even though 90% of redditors are incels in denial.
4 random examples and the most recent is from 20 years ago? This is weaksauce OP.
If you think 4 images is not enough, it's because you lack pattern recognition to instantly related those 2 styles with the 90's and 00's.
Like the other guy said, if you had focused on remakes and otherwise tried to make better 1 to 1 comparisons, this would be more than "Old Man yells at 20 year old visual novel."
Kanon came for Steam, with the exact same graphics, in 2024.
It is basically believing in a fairy tale, an utopia, where everyone has a house on the beach and never have to work. Like 5 year old children, commies can't tell by default that this is just impossible.