Will these data center only companies continue need those big driver design and implementation departments if they are narrowing their focus like this? Maybe there will be a batch of experienced devs looking for a new place to hang their hats?

Yeah, but it is about making a statement.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Game about cutting up spaceships with lasers and gravity tools with a bit of a narrative.

It’s not a great alignment for the types you identified, but I like all the things you mentioned and found this quite nice.

If the government wanted the people to have it they could have stipulated that or, better yet, given it directly to the people. You need a complicit government for ‘privatized profit; socialized loses’

Being financial able to contribute is required to validate an opinion. Just like only the wealthy should vote.

I would guess that is why. We should push for greater ideals, as you say, but I will begrudgingly accept tolerance as the minimum.