Adding support for larger maps and colored lightmaps, for example. Quake still has an active modding community, and many of the most impressive maps require a source port with increased engine limits. The original engine just can't handle their scale and complexity.
Luckily your tokens are equally accepted as legal tender to the code machine, so if you want it, you can have it.
It a new world. You can literally maintain your own fork with the features you want.
Even the AI models are not gate-kept, soon. In 2030 you'll be able to affordably buy a GPU that can run an open weight model equal to the best that 2026 had to offer. I.e. projects like this.
> In 2030 you'll be able to affordably buy a GPU
One can dream.
Well, what year do you want to put on it? You think that literally never you will be able to buy hardware than can run a model equivalent of the best that 2026 can offer?
Short of the world ending in the next 10 years, it's obviously just a matter of when.
In his 3rd term, Trump will increase tariffs on hardware to 1000% and start a shooting war with China, and focus on replacing all renewables with coal. Then it'll be a race between when civilization as we know it ends, and when GPU prices come down.