Let us go a few decades back and ask this similar question:
"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"
Or,
"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"
"How did it feel inside Xerox PARC when Apple pivoted to GUI lite?"
Or,
"How did it feel inside Go Corporation when Apple and Microsoft pivoted to tablet lite?"
Yet, do we expect that it wasn't "soul crushing" for those inside Xerox, when Apple pivoted to GUI lite, ?
I would add that, the specifics of what is copied, how it is copied and at what stage it's copied, matters a lot on how it is felt.