PETA is funded by the meat and dairy industry to give animal welfare/rights activists the worst possible PR. It’s hard to imagine doing much worse of a job at what they claim to be their goals.

How obsessed can people get with one inconsequential guy for being cringe on the internet?

I’m pretty sure Creation Engine is a middleware relicensing nightmare. SpeedTree’s SDKs are in there, Havok, the core NetImmerse libraries from the early 2000s that they forked… It’s unlikely to ever see the light of day as a compilable source release, this century or probably ever. At least there’s OpenMW, sloooowly catching up.