They let in non-nerds. That's what happened.
You will see similar dynamics where a bunch of people are involved.
Playing off of it, the submission says something worth highlighting:
> One of them builds autonomous weapons for the Pentagon.
Luckey was perfectly happy doing VR at Facebook until he got shoved out over politics.
It's not just letting the non-nerds in--it's a decade-plus long campaign to push nerds out if they have the wrong ideology.
And then there were no 'safe spaces' for socially awkward/on-the-spectrum nerds. The spaces once created to escape the school bullies had let in new types of bully.