> Something lots of people in the tech community get really hung up on is focusing on tech and technique rather than what the technology is doing for the user.
This times a million. Outside of games, I've seen this happening a ton in the social media world. You see lots of people on Reddit boasting about 'Reddit replacements' they've made with the latest fancy programming languages and server setups and what not as if that's what people actually care about.
They don't. They care about the community on the site and the content you can find there.
And the fact of the matter is, your fancy tech demo is completely and utterly dead. No one uses it, so there's no reason for anyone to bother with it either. You're spending all your time tweaking the code and making design adjustments while your site's last post was six weeks ago.
Stop with the server setup stuff and constant tech updates and post some content instead.
Same goes with games here too, as you mention. It's great you're having fun with the programming side of things, but the vast majority of the world doesn't care how it's been coded at all. Spending all your time on a well coded system and ignoring whether the game is actually fun to play is utterly pointless.
As is spending too long trying to be 'perfect' too. You know who else was like that?
3D Realms when they made Duke Nukem Forever. They were so enamoured by thge concept of making the 'most technically advanced game ever' that they wasted 15 years on the same project and didn't actually ship anything.
What they should have done was accept their game was midway through development, finish what they had and released it. People would have liked it, the money could have supported future games and they'd have 5 Duke Nukem games finished in that time frame rather than a few tech demos.
Enough with the tech obsession here. Focus on what matters, your game or product's actual purpose and who it's made for.