Start the slaughter. One game per genre!

Then it becomes a scenario where a AAA studio takes an indie under it's wing, only to taske whatever that indie makes from it, with the indie studio having zero say in anything, only to "man up". 

nintendo fans gave a similar argument for why playstation all stars battle royale shouldn't exist so maybe they have an argument

Which lends to subjectivity, as millions out there seem to think PuB is fine for them to play. Also the devs are still working on the game as well as it's animations, while FN has taken years to work on and is basically released as a "finished" product. 

They know there'll be better developers

I like the concept, but the actual game has a lot of issues. Have a big dev or a popular one use the concept and they'll slowly turn irrelevant.

Just like any popular product, once you have a hit on your hand scaling your team to support it is a key point for any business. After selling 10mil, Bluehole is in a position where competition from everywhere will start to happen. They have the player base already so it will be up to them to make sure their product is the best or just as good to keep their base. Bluehole really does not have a leg to stand on even if they bought their engine from Epic. That's like every FPS shooter that buys their engine from ID but complains Doom has gameplay that is the same as their games.

Bluehole has no grounds to stand on when it comes to saying their content is being copied by someone else when their content was created by taking ideas from other games.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. Game elements being copied is happening all the time, it's only natural to some extent. How is a big studio copying a game mode worse than when an indy dev does it?

Well, you said "it looks like", rather than "I think it looks like" or "imo", so it read more like stating a fact than giving a say.

Excuses?, the game is still being devloped, there isn't much to go for beyond the devs still working on the game, welcome to early access, look at NMS and how well that went and that was backed by Sony.

Millions think differently from you and that's totally fine. You like what you like, millions like what they like.

Yes, it happens, but not in ways that it's a direct clone of everything from top to bottom. The only difference here is that FN has it's crafting, it's own default mechanic sprinkled on top.

I like how we try to put everyone in the same boat, yet we still have bigger studios vs smaller ones, they aren't equals and never will be.