I prefer not to tell people what they can and can't do with their spare time. This hack was probably a blast to write. Let people make fun things. Ironically,

I prefer not to tell people what they can and can't do with their spare time. This hack was probably a blast to write. Let people make fun things. Ironically, your advice is essentially "make an indie game", but it's way easier to get noticed by writing impressive hacks that excite people than by developing yet another indie title that's overwhelmingly likely to just get buried on Steam. The vast majority of indie titles will never attract articles on Ars Technica. So this is poor advice even if your goal is to optimize for maximum audience.