Kind of a side note, but let's be honest here: games are extremely hard, online multiplayer is extremely hard, and social spaces and organization are even way h

Kind of a side note, but let's be honest here: games are extremely hard, online multiplayer is extremely hard, and social spaces and organization are even way harder than the previous. You can spend a whole life thinking about any of them and you won't reach any comfortable solution / theory. I'm confident that many of us think about all these issues and are interested in making... well, worlds where as much people as possible can have as much fun as possible (and hopefully without developing addictions). So, I don't believe the problem is a lack of will. Minecraft, Fortnite, Animal Crossing, WoW... might be ok, but they leave a lot to be desired. At the end of the day, they still feel very limited and dead. Some people just severely underestimate how hard it is to make lively and diverse worlds, keep them alive and fresh... and have people collaborate (as opposed of killing each other) all at the same time. Barely any game manages to do a single one of those properly for a reasonably broad group of people. Can we do much better? Yeah. Will we do much better? Definitely. Do we already have people around working on "better"? You can be sure of it. But it's so damn hard.