Regular maintenance is still necessary, as well as keeping up with modern design standards. And more productivity just means increased sales as long as there are clients present

Not necessarily obsolete. If the guy wants to do better, he should try to learn some of those AI tools. He's not being replaced by AI, he's being replaced by someone who uses AI to boost productivity

Unfortunately, I learned this after I took on a few thousand in student debt. It took a hell of a lot of work, and it certainly isn't for everyone, but I'm now a self-taught front-end web dev making a decent salary. The trick is to learn some kind of skill and know it like the back of your hand.

Bro wasn't expecting to wind up crispy 😂

I'm actually already using this fork! I do enjoy the level of configuration yt-dlp has

This seems like it would follow along the same lines as emulators and torrent downloaders. If you don't download anything illegal with it, you're not doing anything wrong. I use this software for work to download good resolution/low filesize copies of my client's videos. Hopefully I can continue using it.