[Yokohiii]

It was just the heyday of facebook and groups being popular. If a company sees something is popular, they will of course add more crap to it.

The hard part is that companies don't hire creative thinkers, but specialists. So you let people try stuff until you think something good happened.

[larodi]

Well my ask is in the context of narrative as presented by author in his blog post. This super productive guy writing code blindfolded seems to have reinvented the wheel in a very mature environment… not quite a breakthroughs business, even if we can assume certain level of engineering feat. Which is also not unheard of at time of release.