I think this is too cynical to be true. I brought up saturation and uncare of primary users (designers) specifically to address that quality is not enough. You

I think this is too cynical to be true. I brought up saturation and uncare of primary users (designers) specifically to address that quality is not enough. You put your heart and 1000 person-hours into a lovely font, but many will still opt for whatever ships with their OS or design tool. Quality is simply not enough, and sometimes don't even enter the picture, very similarly to creative work - for a musician, talent itself does nothing. Same for well-written code for software engineers - nobody cares, maybe only themselves in the future. Software achieving business goals, and being well written, or by brilliant people are two different things, with very weak correlation. Usually the recipe for success includes good quality / talent, sure. But it also usually includes something that is markedly different from others. People, searching for this distinct something, can seem tryhard, or just throwing sh!t at the wall, to see what sticks - and maybe they are - but they are also doing something that's an organic part of the road to success. For a font-related example, that might be easier on the eyes, could be Fira Code. One of the immediate distinguishers is the ligatures. Check it out if you haven't already, it's quite neat, and it was the talk of the town for quite some time.