From an economic standpoint, perhaps. Consider the hobbyist. If these tools had been available when I was a kid, my tile based RPG could have had the graphics

From an economic standpoint, perhaps. Consider the hobbyist. If these tools had been available when I was a kid, my tile based RPG could have had the graphics I always wanted it to have. Instead, it never got anything more than map tiles (primitive ones at that). I had no talent or skills for asset creation. Nobody played that game other than me, and (once) a couple other people I knew. That was fine, I made it for me, not others. But I would really have been happy to have access to assets.