Just for perspective, the people working on his are pursuing their hobbies and sharpening their programming skills. In contrast, you are using your time to whine about it on the internet.
No, they can't. People pursue things that interest them, if it isn't interesting they wouldn't do it at all.
This is similar to "why donate to cause X when cause Y is much more important?" well if cause X didn't exist, those people likely wouldn't donate at all, so it's not really an opportunity cost.
You can pay them I guess, usually a good motivator.