Because appeasement worked so well in the past it’s bound to work again.

The problem the article highlights is not the considerable amount of “graybeards,” but the lack of everyone else.

to have a bigger part of that pie, then have more of them jump in.

The problem is: how?

I personally enjoy working with open source projects because I like making code to help other people. But, apparently, that’s not enough of an incentive for other people.

Or, of course, they don’t have the time/resources

Is this hallway perhaps really cold, dark and makes some growling sounds?

IIRC if you pipe something do head it will stop reading after some lines and close the pipe, leading to a pipe fail even if everything works correctly