Loved Dark Cloud. Spent so much time on it. I wanted to play it with emulator but I am pretty sure it is now just a horrible game to play with super rigid gameplay.
Lineage os and graphene os are both based on AOSP, no ? How to expect these projects to survive if AOSP becomes closed source ?
What worries me the most is the support for our phone. Constructor provides bad to average support for new android versions. Meanwhile, these projects can last for a long time. I have a one plus 7 pro and it is running on YAAP, receives OTA security updates every month and all the major versions of Android. Killing AOSP will lead to killing long term support of our phone.
You are right that it will continue, I was too dramatic. However the big advantage of AOSP is to have a solid common base.