[abnercoimbre]

Wait, isn't $10k a seriously meaningful amount to hobbyists? E.g. Cleanly reverse-engineering SM64 was done by clever folks in their spare time.

[adventured]

What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.

You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?

You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.