I don't think anyone is insulting Carmack. Quite the opposite, pretty much everyone knows that Carmack is an absolutely brilliant, world-class developer. You co

I don't think anyone is insulting Carmack. Quite the opposite, pretty much everyone knows that Carmack is an absolutely brilliant, world-class developer. You could easily make the argument that Carmack saw the prototype and was more excited by its potential than its present quality that drove him to sign on. Then, being Carmack, he alone had the technical chops to make it usable.