Doesn't really matter in this case. Doesn't matter enough for people to pull out their wallet. You can re-fork from clean OSS and re-implement any time while you sleep, using whatever AI subscription you already have.
I think you overestimate the number of photographers who are also comfortable with CLI tools, because doing this via web-facing UI's is quite less capable currently
Those photographers you speak of (95%) are using Lightroom and Photoshop and you wouldn't be able to build a fork business for them. The 5% who use Darktable are likely comfortable with CLI tools.