Comparing this to devs being salty about ER or BG is just weird. People here seem to applaud a creative bankrupt design just because it is not from a big evil corp. Would have EA, Ubi or whoever copied so blatantly and had success (we'll see if Foamstars will be a success and if people badmouth it more than they already do cause of blatant Splatoon ripoff), everyone would have screamed from the rooftop that big corp are risk averse, do only copy pasta, ruin gaming with lazy cash graps and some other nonsense. But small lazy devs are allowed to fight the good fight as long as it hurts the big players.
I thought we genereally disliked GTA/WoW/Souls or whatever copy jobs and wanted more genuinely new games not trying to mimick other IPs. But it seems as long as it's from some unknown entitiy, them being heavily inspired by some already successful universe's design work than it's okay to just rip ideas/designs and not even try to alter it enough. I guess the Wonderful 101 team now might wonder if they just had ripped the design and not worked at all on their own, just thrown Pokemons into their gameplay loop, if they could have had success with that.
The reception of this crap screams that anyone out there will now heavily rip assets in one way or another (and open the AI floodgates even more) and we will get a lot more very close games because it is easier and cheaper for the weasels. Good job gamers!