But doesn't that seem illegal to you? Why not build something that follows the rules and gradually gain followers over time? I'll be here if you need anything along those lines.

Agree with the point, but I think you're being a bit unfair to the other side. Not every Rust migration is empty hype — Discord and Cloudflare didn't move critical parts to Rust for resume-driven development, they did it because p99 tail latency and memory usage across millions of concurrent connections are the real problem there, and that's exactly where Node's or Go's GC starts to hurt. The question shouldn't be "Rust yes or no," it should be "is...

there are vague reports that they are still active, and I'm on a relentless quest to get this information

and it seems on record that the same organization has resurfaced, but with little impact this time. it seems that we are more concerned about the AIs