Agree. I made no judgement call.
>Just because Carmack
"Just because a man, who has some cachet with mountain climbers for being the first to climb mount everest doesn't mean he's any more correct about how to climb mount everest than a raving lunatic". That's your pitch?
Carmac has shipped massive selling, fun games, using low-level, innovative techniques, back when such crazy shit was necessary. The issue is the difference between what is necessary ("Miyamoto") and what is prescriptive ("Kung Fu").
If Carmack said, "you're wrong in your game design, here's how to do it instead", yeah I'd listen. Same as if Kasparov gave me chess advice. But if Kasparov said, "AI won't take the fun away from chess" then how the hell does he have any expertise on that when he's spent the majority of his chess career without AI. Let's keep in mind that he made it to world champion before Deep Blue beat him.