Not especially exclusive to crypto casinos, but casinos in general. Ideas that make it big elsewhere are copycated all the time. I guess you'll know this only when you try all those shady online casinos that are out there, especially in China or Philippines!
Personally I think copycats are in every industry. If you have a mobile app and you don't want to pay, and are forced to watch ads, then you know what I mean. Thousands of ads all looking the same as each other.
Same as going to Google Store search 1 app, see 100 copies.
This happens everywhere, if a product which is innovative is released and people are buying it in just a few days hundreds of cheap copies appear on the market, but this is stifling innovation as those people need to pay all the research costs and when they finally have a product they can sell it is immediately copied and they are not paid any royalties either, so I think this is the reason why no one is taking any risks as it simply makes no sense for them to take them.
Thanks for repeating what I said lol but yeah, that's the whole point I was trying to say. It's no use to complain about a 'copycat epidemic' within crypto casinos especially when it actually is far worse in other industries. They're cheats and they're gaming it but money talks, and worse, consumers fall for it.
I don't know about stifling innovation, that also sounds like another excuse. If I did something new and 1000 people copied me, I would be finding day and night to make my stuff even better. How does it stifle innovation?