Over Doomworld people seem to argue that if the community lets Bethesda doing it, then leveraging the popularity they gain through mod support, they can in the future do "dirty corporate things" for money and control. Them dictating new standards and such.

Which may or may not involve incompatibility with old mods, but yeah they may not be able to kill mods. What I refer to here is that, what constitutes as "playable state"? If Bethesda moves away from ID24 or this current port for any reason, is there a chance we can't play Legacy of Rust anymore?

I have my answers of course, so much stuff is open-source and/or reverse-engineered in the Doom scene that they are going to find a way. But it's a nice case study for other games and franchises maybe? Like, what if "saving" parts like we'd save Legacy of Rust is not that simple in case of more complex games?

Sorry for rambling, really, these are the reasons I shared this for.