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I have been a developer professionally and exclusively using Unity for 17 years. Yesterday, I installed Unreal Engine. I’m doing as many tutorials as I can this weekend.
I have no faith now that there will be enough studios willing to use Unity to sustain a career based on it.
"Proprietary Software A is evil. I'm switching to Proprietary software B. I'm sure they won't eventually fuck me over for money"
Maybe check out an actual FOSS product like Godot
How many jobs require experience in Godot? We don't live in a fantasy world.
Right now, few, but in 6 months, 95% of the studios that used Unity will be using Godot, simply because it's much lighter and is much more suited for the Unity style of game (Hollow Knight, Celeste, Among US, etc) than unreal is.
(X) to doubt on that one, chief.
If all you were doing was a 2D game, maybe. But Unity's 3D stack is head and shoulders above Godot for anything past hobby projects. If you were working on a 3D Unity project professionally, Unreal is probably a better move than Godot, practically speaking.