I don't understand the sentiment of this at all. It's fun to create things, I've learned the most from working on "toy" projects, it helps with job burnout, and could potentially become a new product/company/revenue-source.

If You don't like the idea of my project, You can just ignore it. I spent my free time to create this and I'm happy, that someone likes it. I train my programming skill and learn new thing by doing projects like this. I would never learn programming if I didn't play with it.

Linux also started out as a toy project. https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...

> How many human hours should be wasted on toy projects that only cause distraction and get abandoned shortly after?

As many hours as possible.

I bet you're fun at parties

Maybe wait until it gets abandoned before complaining?

you mean like any and all forms of entertainment? must be an agent smith or somethin here

Sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of fun.

Where did the open source touch you?