> Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Presumably the creators

> Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier? Presumably the creators of the bounty believe that this bounty is in fact a good way to directly improve Prettier. The acceptance criterion of the bounty doesn't need to literally be "improve Prettier" for the work to improve Prettier.