I think there's three factors: 1. Your source of fame is one-dimensional. You're famous for a handful of achievements, they're unambiguously positive, and that

I think there's three factors: 1. Your source of fame is one-dimensional. You're famous for a handful of achievements, they're unambiguously positive, and that's pretty much all that most of us remember. 2. Nobody perceives you as having power over them. 3. They hope that you'll make a 4.4 release of bsdiff with an improved suffix array construction algorithm. Maybe divsufsort, as it looked good in "SACABench: Benchmarking Suffix Array Construction" (2019). At least, that's my personal guess. :P