This lets you do things like override/revert values in the inherited resources, and changes you make to the base resource will propagate to all inherited resources.

Here, you can see I'm reverting the red material's color override, and it turns back to the yellow of its base material.

Much like how AI art could be interesting if it leaned into its digital psychadelia instead of being sold as a way to Replace All Creative Labor (tm), I feel like VR could be interesting if it leaned into its strengths in generating presence instead of going down with the failure of the metaverse.

The tragedy of AI to me is that the people in charge had a cool artform and chose to kill it in the hopes to make money, and when it didn't, just quadrupled down and roped the US economy into it.

I wish it stayed niche and novel and hope once this bubble pops it can be revisited more responsibly.