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The Death of Unity - Opinion
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The reality is that it's a lot of fuss for a game development company to switch engines but for an experienced individual developer it's not a huge deal to switch engines. If you learn game development and design today using Unity then 100% of the game design knowledge is exactly transferable and 80-99% of the game development knowledge (depending on exactly what you're doing) will transfer to Unreal or Godot or whatever else you might need to use later.
It's like a musician switching from one audio production suite to another. The musical theory stays the same and while the exact details of how to make each bit of software do stuff is different, the actual stuff you're making it do is broadly the same.