Epic had it as one of their freebies once, so it might return there.

Especially compared with his facial expression. He very much look like he is savouring the news.

Because the original doesn’t really have a lot of predatory monetisation. They are having GTAO wet dreams thinking about how to monetise their most popular game of the franchise with the excuse of doing it as a remake.

Of course it would have lasted long. It had lasted basically the entire existence of human populated India up until then.