Currently the App only shows 3 reviews in the store by the way. At least from where I am looking it up. I suppose it doesn‘t take much to dominate Danish download charts. I‘m sure web alternatives exist that can at least help you even if they don‘t support every feature the app supposedly does.
Manor Lords is probably the most realistic medieval city builder right now. Only the idea that people build new settlements from scratch isn‘t very accurate or at least very uncommon for the time. I know it‘s in the core DNA of the genre so it‘s fine. Still, maybe they could add other scenarios where you take over a settlement to improve it or rebuild one that has been attacked. That would be even more immersive.
There is also Black Forest Labs by former Stable Diffusion developers that pretty much spearhead local image generation models. For better or worse. If I remember correctly Grok Image generator uses it.
So the expertise is there, I think. The question is if we really want that. It‘s an industry by thieves for thieves.
I have a problem with encryption possibly being a thing of the past because users I write with will put all incoming messages through some LLM because they can‘t be arsed to actually read and reply themselves.
Data centers, that empty parking lot outside the abandoned mall, deportation camps…