> It's not that the engine doesn't let you do cool things, it's that you're a software developer at heart that wants to find reasons to add new features to your

> It's not that the engine doesn't let you do cool things, it's that you're a software developer at heart that wants to find reasons to add new features to your engine, instead of making a game. This is so true. Yak shaving _feels_ incredibly productive. Look at everything I got done today! The same can be true for rewrites, refactors, redesigns (product/graphic designers looove yak shaving), and prototypes. I don't think that makes any of these things objectively bad. It just means there's a difference between wanting to have made a game and wanting to make games.