I'm not going to dismiss people's hard work just because I find personally it worthless.
I'm not sure that sentence makes any sense: if you find it worthless, that's a dismissal.
That said, the value might be value to them: understanding existing solutions to problems helps inform you for solving novel problems. Their product is worthless, but the experience they gained making it isn't.
And no, I don't see problems ever being solved, simply because they just expand. I've worked on a couple of free open source projects, showed them off to people, and have got feedback from users of "Hey, it would be cool if [insert-feature-here]". And if I implement that feature, "Ah, thanks...oh, and add this feature too." More and more 'suggestions' pile up, which means more work.
Just because someone suggests something doesn't mean you have to or should do it. This is exactly what I'm talking about with making pointless changes: a lot of the changes people will suggest are pointless.
You make assumptions about me that you probably shouldn't.
Okay, perhaps you'd rather I said: "I see no indication in what you're saying that you have ever worked with people creating a useful product." Is that any different?
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I'm not sure that sentence makes any sense: if you find it worthless, that's a dismissal.
That said, the value might be value to them: understanding existing solutions to problems helps inform you for solving novel problems. Their product is worthless, but the experience they gained making it isn't.
Just because someone suggests something doesn't mean you have to or should do it. This is exactly what I'm talking about with making pointless changes: a lot of the changes people will suggest are pointless.
Okay, perhaps you'd rather I said: "I see no indication in what you're saying that you have ever worked with people creating a useful product." Is that any different?