I've always wondered if these license are legally enforceable. What if TikTok ignores the criticism and does nothing. Do the developers sue the company and will they get any money?
100%. The other day I wanted to do some transformations on a file using the like of regex, sed and grep. After 1 hour I just gave up and thought "hey, why not try doing it in Python". It took me just 5 minutes to write a small script, which was eye opening. Since then, I just write python scripts instead of toiling with commands I don't know.