[freshhawk]

I partly agree, but surely the annoyance at things like this is because those eyes and research could have been on better potential projects that didn't get the hype.

It's naive, but I always felt the annoyance comes from the fact that people like a meritocracy and hype being such a large part is irritating. Luck you can deal with, you know its isn't going away. It's harder to internalize that the hype aspect is natural human behavior and it isn't going away either.

What I don't get is people who take that fact and decide it's not worth trying to do things better.