Downvoted for the blind cynicism.

It's true that the frontend side is awash with money, and that there are nowhere near as many such engineers, but we tend to be a lot quieter about it. A lot of people went into IoT.

The economics of the hardware market mean that "open" is even more unprofitable than it is for software, which already has a bit of a crisis in terms of the few people holding up the world not being paid properly.