WINE doesn't modify binaries, does it?

It doesn't, it is a runtime for running Portable Executables[1] on the fly while also mocking windows API libraries to Linux implementations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable

Yeah, that's the key difference. Wine leaves the binary intact, while AnyPS5 actually patches/relinks it.

Does Rosetta modify binaries in-place?

No. It's effectively a JIT.

(It saves copies of translated binaries behind the scenes, but it still behaves like a JIT overall.)

The first comment in this thread drew a comparison between Spotify and Shopify. Perhaps you were skimming and missed it.

Yeah. In principal, scientists should be excited by weird results. In practice, though, humans are complex creatures with intellectual and emotional inertia. There's an understandable element of dread when you realize your life's work finds itself on shaky ground.

> Fable is a PR model.

Yeah, Fable is Anthropic's Cybertruck.