[About XDA developers] k2trill:
Well, I think there's more to it than that. ROM A may have some "tweaks" or whatever ROM customizing app of choice included with it but my be bland throughout the rest of the ROM. It may have a simple splash screen and a wallpaper thrown together but basically it's stock (battery, signal bars, etc.) NOW, ROM B may be HEAVILY themed with little or no trace of stock appearance from every back arrow, font, signal bars, animations, colors, etc. Then, you have ROM C which is lightly modded and lightly themed to the devs taste and/or abiltiy.

Now, the lead dev of ROM A may be MORE familiar with certain aspects of ROM development i.e. structural design etc. where the developer of ROM B may not be AS familiar with the core coding.TO ME, this is for obvious reasons. NOT because ROM A's dev is smarter than ROM B or C's but because he or she has spent more time in that area where ROM B I would have to believe spent more time on aesthetics. Think of the two devs areas of interest as you comparing a mechanical engineer and a structural engineer....

Which area of interest is MORE IMPORTANT??! The answer is NEITHER, it is ALL IMPORTANT! All devs cater to different types of users. Sure there may be 20 different ROMS to choose from, but hey, the more choices the better the odds that a person will find EXACTLY what they are looking for. With little to no choices because "I don't wanna share or help you" attitudes, we end up with guess what.... an iPhone platform! Is that what you want??! We NEED ALL THE CHOICES because with more choices come more ideas, more users, more development and desire to dev, and an overall diverse ecosystem!

We all have lives outside of this forum and phone/tablet development, so we HAVE TO KNOW only SO MUCH time can be put into this or that. Users like myself want SOMETHIN new every few days (ha ha ha). It is the nature of the beast! This is why teams are established. To economically work on multiple ROMs for multiple devices and manage leaks and updates and mods. so that end users like myself can get "our fix" as quick and bug free as possible. What many of us are forgetting when we join our "teams" on XDA, themikmik, teambamf, coredroid, bindroid, android revolution, etc. is that we are ALL SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE SAME TEAM!!

My purpose here is to simply say if you are here for the right reasons, sharing should be priority 1 whether you get credit for it or not. At the end of the day you have to face yourself because years from now (and I mean less than 3) what you considered monumental, may probably minimal in the scheme of things because LIFE and development MOVE ON! an example was the development on the HD2 from when it was launched until right now.... I STILL think that what was done and what is being done on it was epic even though I haven't had or seen one in 1.5 years! However, the guy that just bought his first Android phone when the One X released because he's always owned an iPhone may not know or care about any of that! That doesn't mean it is irrelevant now. It just means the ability to nand install Android or Win M7 on HD2 had it's place in evolution and it was and still is important not only to ALL of its users but to ALL THE DEVS who played an unselfish role in it. I've been on this site since '05 (I didn't create my own account until '09 because I was scared they would spam my email! ha ha ha) and I believe its members and the members of all other like forums that were essentially created BECAUSE of XDA would and will benefit from everyone sharing their intellectual knowledge/WORK with each other because simply put, the person you emulate work from today may need to and should be able to borrow yours tomorrow. Nothing negative bout that. It all ends up positive for everyone and the choices they have. In closing, What work you do that SEEMS so epic TODAY MAY NOT SEEM so epic TOMORROW or even be remembered, but HOW YOU CONDUCTED yourself as a developer and other will ALWAYS be remembered and THAT is what defines you not only as a developer but as a PERSON! Again, this is just my take on it.