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.