Definitely in the "they didn't stop to think if they should" category.
They probably did, and just determined that it would be fun.
The other week I had a fun project to implement IPv6 support in TempleOS. I did stop to think whether I should, and determined that absolutely not.
I asked Claude to start planning on doing it. It started referencing ZealOS, which is a fork of TempleOS and already has a functioning TCP stack.
That's when I determined that it would no longer even be fun, because someone else had already done all the heavy lifting, and gave up.
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They probably did, and just determined that it would be fun.
The other week I had a fun project to implement IPv6 support in TempleOS. I did stop to think whether I should, and determined that absolutely not.
I asked Claude to start planning on doing it. It started referencing ZealOS, which is a fork of TempleOS and already has a functioning TCP stack.
That's when I determined that it would no longer even be fun, because someone else had already done all the heavy lifting, and gave up.