In some sense, I think that there is something of a tragedy of plenty happening in the maker/hacker community. When options were few, you had dense groups with

In some sense, I think that there is something of a tragedy of plenty happening in the maker/hacker community. When options were few, you had dense groups with deep knowledge about different hackable technologies. The abundance of options, while good in general, limits the usefulness of that kind of deep knowledge in favor of a broader kind of knowledge. How many ways are there to blink a light or read a potentiometer? Expanding on a simple project can take hundreds of different paths depending on your hardware and software stack. It's not dead, it's just adapting to the current landscape of abundance.