I would suggest that’s an availability bias, those who do it for free are more likely to blog about it.

There is a common distinction between professional and amateur with the former getting paid for their work. In general there is an understanding that someone getting paid can focus and do it full time and are expected to be better than someone who does it as a hobby.

Perhaps coding is an unusual space where the best coders are often misfits who have a hard time holding down a job.

>And a small observation: if you require money to do something, you usually have no chance of being as good as the folks that do it for the pleasure.

Usually complex things are there, where they money is - semiconductor industry, big corpos (chromium, linux, llvm, etc), AI, etc.

Sure but then they have to waste time working for money, rather than doing God’s work.

> if you require money to do something, you usually have no chance of being as good as the folks that do it for the pleasure.

......... o.O i guess the professional football leagues all have players who are worse than the rec leaguers? hners are delusional...