It seems that way, but it's been flooded with politics for all my adult life. Steve Jackson Games, the Clipper Chip, software patent shenanigans, the public domain stolen from 1976 to 2019, endless thinly-disguised censorship and control efforts - in meatspace, nothing is new.

> On a different note, this industry used to have so much more fun - just solving puzzles to herd bits - before it was flooded by politics.

when was that, in the 80s?