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> You don't see people being like "I reverse-engineered Vivado but I won't give you a copy because I could get sued."

Eh, not Vivado, but back in my undergrad days I RE/cracked a tool used in a very specific niche and definitely kept my mouth shut as the developers could a) do some investigation and then sue me, a student without any legal budget to spare; b) improve copy protection on future releases; and/or c) prevent my access to future versions of the tool that I was using for my thesis.

On other threads about Denuvo you always see somebody saying they've got the chops but the risk to their livelihoods is not worth it.

I think there are a lot of (now) hobbyist reverse-engineers that learned the craft back in the day and kept the knowledge for themselves.