Yeah, it is split into factions. the devs are needed of course, and hoefully more come and develop more interesting things. The problem is, they don't seem to do it anymore unless they get DHF funding. Before, they did it because they were devs doing what devs do in a cutting edge field.

they remind me of the fools who use fuckbook posting snaps of their dog licking his balls, hunting for blue thumbs up, needy for imaginary friends.

Yep. There used to be more of them, posting crap expecting to get rich. At the very start, some did.

is it not really the home of the corporate gangster and the money laundering drug dealer, busy with his encrochat, fucking scumbags; both genres hiding their money from the tax man and the authorities?

That is what they'd have people believe - but where they hide their money, is in Switzerland and US dollars.