> Makes me feel sorry for all the time spent/wasted by all those devs, many of whom are unquestionably brilliant and could've worked together on something truly awesome, big and useful

I'm really not a fan of this virtue shaming that people often tend to do as developers, where if you're not working to solve world peace then you're a waste of a developer.

Sometimes people just like getting paid? Sometimes people just don't really care, they just want a job or want to write code?