May I suggest the problem is not with the questions then?
You're completely welcome to make a post that raises those questions, but I think its irrelevant here. I don't think its productive for every fun project posted to have an inquisition in the comments on whether or not the project deserves to exist.
> May I suggest the problem is not with the questions then?
It's against the guidelines to make swipes like this.
I find it frustrating that people cannot have a conversation about what enables a project to exist without people going shhh just look at the shinies.
To me, it is a very surface level uncritical attitude directly counter to the hacker ethos of looking at how systems work.
We tend to examine projects by their inputs and outputs. I don't think it's fair to exempt capital and resources, one of the key inputs, from examination.
That's not to say this isn't a cool house or the person building it did anything bad themselves, they're just an actor in the bigger incentive system.