It does reflect reality, as evidenced by what’s about to happen for Audacity: if they keep the terms as-is, people will either use the software as the terms are

It does reflect reality, as evidenced by what’s about to happen for Audacity: if they keep the terms as-is, people will either use the software as the terms are written or they’ll stop using it. As an example, UK schools are likely to have to either negotiate an alternate license or switch products. What’s been “debunked” is that products die off because of things like adding telemetry, because plenty of people don’t consider that a dealbreaker