The problems that need "solving" in this space are 99% politics. Making something become a standard and/or popular is a fundamentally different task from making

The problems that need "solving" in this space are 99% politics. Making something become a standard and/or popular is a fundamentally different task from making something good. The answer to your earlier question, of course, is that—to some people, anyway—trying to make something good is far more satisfying than trying to make something popular.