Years ago in the old MP I had problems with a new seller using my work in his product. I would report, his product would be temporarily suspended until he replaced the reported part with some other stolen part, then it was allowed back. I would report again, same cycle and the product was allowed back again.
I knew he was stealing from other people too, so I scoured the internet and found the original mesh and author of one of his meshes (which was already replacing another stolen mesh that Epic had him remove), reported that too. It was 2 or 3 cycles (I don’t remember off the top of my head) of reporting, suspension and return after replacing stolen content.
In the end he just kept selling his product normally, I couldn’t keep reporting because it was taking my entire working time to scour the internet and make reports. But his product became kinda dry missing the cooler parts and after some time he removed the product.
So this pattern isn’t new, it’s just that there are many many more bad actors now then years ago.