What it proves is that it’s good enough to make tons of money. You’re arguing from a hypothetical alternate reality where they could have been better off, but

What it proves is that it’s good enough to make tons of money. You’re arguing from a hypothetical alternate reality where they could have been better off, but there’s no point in that. It’s like saying “Sure Usain bolt can run a sub 10sec 100m.... but if he’d gone into politics perhaps he’d made even more money and been twice as famous, we have no way of knowing, so how does that sub 10s 100m really prove anything about whether or not he’s fast?” Usain bolt is fast, and that code made money. It’s just facts, accept them.