If you put in a lot of work, you might not be the author of the realization but you are author of the concept (assuming it is not trivial). Why should you not be able to protect your ideas?

What is the status of a movie director compared to the actors?

Who is usually mentioned when discussing whether the movie was well crafted or not?

The best actor cannot save a shitty plot.

[–] SparroHawc@piefed.world 2 points 6 days ago

You're thinking of patents, not copyright. You can't copyright an idea, only the implementation of an idea. I could spend years perfecting a play, but when a troupe performs that play, I don't own their performance.

And you underestimate the idiocy of self-proclaimed 'vibe coders'. Go into practically any FOSS community and see what they have to say about vibe-coded pull requests. The people making them have no clue what the code is doing, they're just chasing clout with minimal effort.