Not to dredge up old bad blood. I just wonder sometimes where I'd be with this if they'd gotten the message and backed off, or if I handled it more gracefully. Certainly would've disappeared a lot less.

I have no issue with folks drawing inspiration from my style, drawing my characters and scenarios etc.
I've chatted about my approach with people exhaustively.
Someone taking an overnight hard-turn into my whole approach and twinning my every artistic development was just way over the line though.