The people who get the most out of the sport look at it from a more experience-based goal, plus the humanistic values that they can maintain while climbing.
Relentless drive can easily turn into summit fever.
On the mountain, you can push and sometimes make things happen, and sometimes the mountain doesn't let you make it happen. And for a lot of them, that is a new thing. Some early adopters already know this, of course, and decry the soullessness they see in techreationalists. It's a hard lesson to learn. The Forest Service is aware of only five climbers who reached the peak that day, some crawling on their hands and knees.