But that's not what they are doing. Godot/Unity are not complements to Unreal. Epic are, in fact, commoditizing their competition, which is low-end, indie-friendly games development platforms.

Yeah, I had looked up the term to double-check before posting, but I felt that it didn’t quite fit as a developer picking Unreal was unlikely to also use Unity for a game.

You all have been reading hacker news recently too I see.

it all goes back to joel on software from 2002:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/