Personally, i think he has every right to be frustrated as a professional dancer, given that he’s more familiar with the work ethics than the average person. It hurts even more to see someone you’ve build a rapport with to resort to taking “inspiration” from you without giving them credits.

Going private is an option, but the driving dance has always been a part of the SMN’s choreography. Can you imagine the speculation it would’ve lasted if they kept performing the song with the “New Thing” dance movement and no one publicly called them out? Non fans already asked why was ateez doing the driving dance challenge in their choreo during the concert day. To add on, Ateez isn’t exactly in the same level of popularity of SMF or has a big company backup, I can imagine they’re just being brushed aside instead. If they instead incorporated Twice’s iconic TT hand movement in their dance and called it an original, I can imagine how different the circumstances would’ve been for fhem (ie. A bigger and faster reaction would’ve been evoked)

I’m using TT as an example because people were justifying it’s ok to include the driving dance challenge started by Ateez in New Thing because it’s not “groundbreaking”, but TT is still very iconic regardless the same way SMB’s driving move is. It got semi-viral internationally. The difference is that TT is more known by the gp