A common fault is to believe only those who can do have the vision to see what should be done. Sometimes they’re even right. You can hear complaints of shortcomings or you can hear suggestions for how to improve a product. And, especially in a volunteer role, you can choose if you want to do it or not.
Marcan pretty clearly isn’t saying that feature requests wore him down. He’s saying that people saying “what you’ve built so far isn’t useful” wore him down.
(Plus, your original analogy about parents and children is completely lost by now.)
A common fault is to believe only those who can do have the vision to see what should be done. Sometimes they’re even right. You can hear complaints of shortcomings or you can hear suggestions for how to improve a product. And, especially in a volunteer role, you can choose if you want to do it or not.
Marcan pretty clearly isn’t saying that feature requests wore him down. He’s saying that people saying “what you’ve built so far isn’t useful” wore him down.
(Plus, your original analogy about parents and children is completely lost by now.)