>>724933390 (OP)
Copyright exists to censor ideas that undermine government, and at it's current scale, the government that it serves is the UN, so a work that explicitly dives into conspiracy theories about the UN can't be allowed to be successful if it isn't repeatedly watered down.
The government will explicitly lean on publishers of established culture to avoid rocking the boat, much like how Animal Farm could not be published to avoid antagonizing the Soviets.
>>724940905
>Re-release with partially remade assets made by some terrible outsourcing studio that needs to shart the game out ASAP for no money
Vs.
>Original release with remade assets and fixes picked from what you consider to be the best of the best, produced by people who do not value their time at all and who have been working on the game for up to 25 years
If the modding tools are powerful enough, then official remakes are entirely superfluous, because the original can be maintained with updated assets.