For me that's fascinating that people bashing new casinos if they don't have license, yet continue to play on unlicensed websites. (Although having a license doesn't make any difference if they want to scam... see AdkinsBet example)
As I observed here in crypto ever since I started involving in crypto-gambling, gambling licensed doesn't really matter as long as the site was seen serious about running their business. Good and active customer service, smooth deposit and withdrawal, ability to solve issues, seriousness in doing marketing, etc. are the considerations of most gamblers.
It's hard to build a reputation from scratch competing with other popular websites so if you ever see a gambling site that running for several years now, able to gather more users, don't have any issues, then you can bet that even without a license, it's worth to play with the risks with them.
That has been the case for years, but having a license matters just a quite bit, as in that is the bare minimum effort to put in. So if you are starting a new place, you have to get it, at least until you get loved by more people, that way you will have a license to give people some "ease" that is fake obviously, even with a license it could be a scam website, but when you turn out to be a decent place after few years you do not even need to renew the license, as long as people trust you the license means nothing.
So, this means all the known websites like yolodice and all the other big ones, could just remove their licenses, stop renewing them or however it works, and they can continue to get the same amount of people as they have always done, why? Because we already trust them, they are already great, so they can just get people to play because they love the place.