A third reason: when I go to the page, I see a single task with $20 offered as the pay. From the description, There seems to be a reasonable chance that it take

A third reason: when I go to the page, I see a single task with $20 offered as the pay. From the description, There seems to be a reasonable chance that it takes me 3 hours to complete from start to finish. Given that it is not guaranteed that I get paid, why would I write code for US federal minimum wage? If I'm going to submit a pull request to the marketplace and I see that this is the sort of thing on offer, I become skeptical that a skilled person who can deliver solidly readable code on-time is going to spend their time on this site. That means it is probably not worth the work it takes to package up a task for a total novice. If I don't have many of these sort of easily-packagable tasks, then I'd just do them myself. If I do, then it makes a lot more sense for me to go and hire a junior engineer who can actually learn my app/data model/domain and be 6x as efficient tackling them as a random person who doesn't have an ongoing relationship with me. Companies often lose money hiring interns who have a whole summer to ramp up, but make up for it in the recruiting benefits. Why would they hire an intern for 4 hours.