Well written. This sucks, the ignorance in craft is very harmful. I did ask this before though, I wanted to know about the process and more about how the dev conceived of the game.
I think that was an okay discussion. Most people in the world don't have a clue how anything works, I just figured out what game engine to use last week.
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Yeah it's definitely useful to learn from other devs, I'm not here to hate on shop-talk, but even with other artists you should be trying to learn from their creative choices, not just their tech.
I am shaped by the local Brisbane game dev community, but not because I learnt which engine is best, more because I was immersed in new ways of seeing the world.
But even then, most of the people who ask me this question aren't developers.