It's funny how that works, right? It's like that thing with driving where you focus too hard on the wheel and start swerving, but as soon as you just relax and let your hands do their thing you're straight as an arrow again. Same kinda deal, the harder you try to control something the more it fights back.

Is everyone just trading their hobbies for work time as they get older?

Oh man, I used to be exactly like that... thought a silly idea was just a joke that needed to be cut down to size. Then I wrote a one-line joke about a coffee machine that could only speak in sarcastic compliments and three months later I had a 200 page thing about loneliness and addiction. It just happens sometimes when a goofy concept actually has room to grow, you know?

What kind of features were you blindly building?

Those cheap surplus dealers always dump bad runs fast. Had the same thing with a box of resistors years ago, half were dead out of the pack. It's like how grocery stores put the expired meat on the front of the shelf. Everyone is trying to unload their mistakes on us.