Why would any sane person pick up one of these projects? If a project isn't good enough for the original developer to continue working on it, it sure isn't good

Why would any sane person pick up one of these projects? If a project isn't good enough for the original developer to continue working on it, it sure isn't good enough for anyone else to. Early/unfinished projects have a ton of design cruft and technical debt that another human would have approached a different way if starting from scratch.