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For what it's worth it spawned a lot of quality software as a side effect. And served as an educational platform for a lot of programmers that felt that there's something wrong with modern day software and python/javascript low quality garbage they did at their day-to-day job, but couldn't quite put their finger on it.

Turns out you can both fail, and yet succeed in 10 different ways at the same time.

What do you mean by "not really getting anywhere"? The point was to show and document the process, not to ship a commercial game.

And the context is that it was 2hrs a week for 9 years, not 9 years of full-time dev.

The process was absolutely to ship a commercial game, which Casey re-iterated at the beginning of every single episode. Also, people could spend $15 to "pre-order" the game.

Haven't you kept up with the social media status, and the conferences that came out of it?

Huh, I didn't realize he'd abandoned Handmade Hero! I somehow assumed he eventually shipped it.