In the gaming space, retro console PC ports have absolutely exploded in the last year. People are modding old games with 4k textures, ray tracing, DLSS 5, widescreen support, uncapped framerates, dual-screen (e.g. Ayn Thor), etc. PS5 emulation has gone from almost nothing to AAA titles in-game in like 2 months, and apparently now runs on xbox (lol).
The other day someone posted a reverse engineered GPU driver for their Mac[0].
Anyway, what makes you think those pushes aren't individuals meeting their own needs? I expect it will take a while for this to really sink in, but the future is people asking the computer to build exactly the app they want.
Also, English localizations of even super-obscure foreign retro games.
Most of those might be not as good as fan translations from dedicated people with good knowledge of English and the original language (especially for very context-dependent languages like Japanese) but they are definitely good enough to follow the story and play through the game.
The other day someone posted a reverse engineered GPU driver for their Mac[0].
Anyway, what makes you think those pushes aren't individuals meeting their own needs? I expect it will take a while for this to really sink in, but the future is people asking the computer to build exactly the app they want.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717638