That doesn’t add up, in this case. If they simply announced a revenue share, something that Unreal Engine already has, it wouldn’t have been anywhere as controversial. Some devs would grumble but it wouldn’t have been taken as an existential threat worth jumping ship as soon as possible.
The whole charge per download was likely an attempt to get more money out of freemium mobile games, but nobody was willing to accept that.
Really, the damage to their image so significant, it’s likely many dev studios will drop it even under those conditions, just out of lost trust.
I’m telling my computers teacher friends to drop Unity from their courses. There are lots of other options. Just not Roblox, which is even worse than Unity.
If I were in a university course with Unity, I’d be asking my professor some pretty pointed questions about platform visibility and stability, too.
The reputation damage from this change will be lasting.
