This makes me angry, and my frustration goes well beyond the person who posted this. It’s a complaint I see constantly across this space, while some of us are still here doing exactly the work people claim to miss. I’m trying to build useful things, and I’m far from the only one. The problem is what actually gets rewarded. Agree with the popular accounts, avoid upsetting anyone, recycle whatever narrative is pumping and optimise every post for engagement and your next X payout. There’s money in keeping people excited, even when you have nothing useful to say. Someone appears out of nowhere, gets pushed by a few KOLs and supoly control and suddenly has an audience ready to throw money at promises. Meanwhile, people maintaining working products have to fight for enough attention to get those products used. Impressions are a terrible measure of quality, and launch hype tells you fuck all about whether someone will still be working when the money slows down. I experience this myself. When I post what I’m building, show actual solutions and explain tools I’ve spent serious time developing, engagement drops and people unfollow. Then my feed fills up with complaints about scammers and questions about where the builders went. That disconnect is exhausting. People say they want substance, but their attention keeps making the same shallow bullshit profitable. Decide what you actually want this space to become. If you’re tired of the casino, start supporting people putting real care and effort into something useful. Try their products, judge the work and share it when it deserves attention. Useful products need users, feedback and revenue to survive. Nostalgia for builders from 2021 does absolutely nothing for the people paying the bills and doing the work today.