TempleOS anyone?

I don't know. It was really made over a long, long time by a person working at it virtually full-time. I remember Terry posting LoseThos (or whatever it was called at before that) it in the OsDev forums in the early 2000s, and he had already been working at it for quite a while. Plus, at least back then, it was more of a novelty toy-like OS-simulacrum than a real OS. There were much more impressive projects at the OsDev forums at the time.

> Nope. I've never met anyone who can complete in a month what it takes an average coder a year to complete.

i've built in two weeks something that took another guy 5 years to not even quite finish. with better performance, reliability and extensibility across the board.

that's a factor of 130x (or more!). how do you want to divide that up between the two of us? if he's 0.01x, how rare must he be for the "average" to still be sitting at 1x?

In my time at Google, I saw numerous projects completed that a whole army of me could never complete (according to the required standards). There are many such problems where throwing more bodies at it won't help; genuine insight is necessary. I'm surprised you haven't encountered this.