Microgravity.io

Why isn’t anyone upvoting this? It’s a rock solid polished multiplayer browser space game created by two teenagers in their free time. Inspiring, right? Yet the other day some undeniably terrible and unplayable garbage called Space Frigates received 179 upvotes and reached the front page. Also worth noting is the Show HN post of the Pickle Rick text console which was objectively depressingly bad and for some reason was also upvoted to the front page last week.

Is it just that people here feel they can relate more to embarrassingly bad unfinished mediocre experimental projects because it’s what they are usually creating themselves? I’m not trying to sound mean, it’s an honest question. I’m trying to understand why people vote the way they do here. Do people have such a strong preference of feeling like they are participating in a real-time show-and-tell of their own unfinished projects that they’ll actively avoid upvoting actual polished completed products since those shatter the illusion?