My point about The Witness was that not many people live in a reality where you can spend 8 years developing a piece of software that doesn't really solve any n

My point about The Witness was that not many people live in a reality where you can spend 8 years developing a piece of software that doesn't really solve any new technical problems for the end user. Obviously a lot of development time didn't involve programming, but this also wasn't a solo project; multiple highly-experienced engineers worked on The Witness. The point is to have perspective when digesting strong opinions about software development.