I respect your opinion on this, but you might enjoy the tech tree which I keep describing as "low-level programming", which is what Erin and Thomas have been killing themselves over for the last several weeks. I haven't written about it much because, frankly, that's not my bag just like finance isn't your bag. (Granted, finance isn't my bag either, but I find myself warming to it after scratch-coding a stock exchange.)
Thomas describes that tech tree as "MicroCorruption the way we would have done it if we had dialed it to 11."
Sneak peak: https://www.evernote.com/l/AaedYkVFsB1Oa4eDakZay59-YF7Lu0mcJ...
(I don't have a good screenshot of it at present because they're currently doing UI surgery on the React 0.14 upgrade.)