I assume regret. Perhaps someone else will take it and finish it release it on steam and make bank. Who knows.
Part of the reason of asking the question is I was hoping to hear from other people who have done something similar so they can share their experience and feelings on the matter.
What if the game was completely done? To your satisfaction, which you are entitled to change, but you've been the only judge so far.
Whether you open-sourced it or not your next step might be to start building a community to allow for enthusiasts' input.
That would be pretty much of a major change without additional coding required.
This would not be the same game effort from you compared to coding it all by yourself any time you have anything to do with it. Like it has been so far.
You would have to be very careful about the community you keep, but it should be about the opposite of isolating.
Now back where we started, OTOH what if you were simply "done with the game", but the game itself is far from done?
I estimate you've got more major milestones in mind and that would mean a lot more of the same kind of effort.
As you are considering, opening it up could give it continued progress whether or not you contribute any more yourself, also whether or not it's you who builds a community.
But it might be a unique opportunity to build a pretty similar community as if the game was far more complete.
Starting right now without having to wait.
Could be the least isolating your progress has been since the beginning.
And community building or participation could be just the thing for a breath of fresh air, and you were probably going to do it sooner or later anyway.
What jumps out at me is that it doesn't touch OneDrive.
You could argue two potential reasons for this:
1. This script removes only AppX packages. OneDrive is an *.msi package
2. OneDrive is something they reinstall if you remove it, so they really are cramming it down your throat. They wouldn't include it in any debloat script.
Bills like that tend to get dumped into a committee and ignored. They don't make it out to the full House for a vote.
So it's entirely for show, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. It's intended to shift the Overton window: "A few years ago we couldn't even have introduced this. Now we have, and now it's something people can talk about. So we'll introduce it again next year, and more people will start to talk about it, until they start to demand it."
So this news story is the most they're going to get out of this... but they did get that. It's now in front of people. And now maybe just legalizing some drugs will seem more feasible.
I don't think they are going to implement it. It's too juicy financially to do so. Furthermore, it's bad PR to say they aren't going to do it. So they will keep stringing us along as long as they can.
I assume regret. Perhaps someone else will take it and finish it release it on steam and make bank. Who knows.
Part of the reason of asking the question is I was hoping to hear from other people who have done something similar so they can share their experience and feelings on the matter.