I see something missing in this thread. I suspect this is the audience which is highly technical and work focused. This is a hobby. Bar the license constraints

I see something missing in this thread. I suspect this is the audience which is highly technical and work focused. This is a hobby. Bar the license constraints, the scope is amazing. And you don't have to achieve anything major. You don't have to change the world. You don't have to create a service or act as a service for some cause. Sometimes it's just about playing, a thing many of us have forgotten since childhood. I myself like to climb up hills with homebrew radios and send and recieve morse code. There is no point in doing this at all. Not even one. I can't think of any at least. Some people pretend it's going to save them if the world ends so it gives them purpose. But really it's nice to have no pressure, no deadline and no dependency on it at all and just tinker with things!