There may have been passion in the beginning, but no longer. Greed takes over where passion once thrived. Profit is prioritized over functionality, despite profit margins already being sufficient to allow the companies employees to live comfortably and for the company to invest in new things. Measures to increase profit in this situation always replace passion. Companies that try their best to get more money from their users, rather than bringing in new paying users with new features, are the very reason why we’ve stagnated. So a lack of passion indeed. Because without passion what reason does one have to continue innovating? If one does not feel for the project they are developing, does that project not suffer for it? Passion is the root of innovation. It may be passion for giving your family a better life, passion to give the world an easier way to do something, or passion to make the best version of a thing you can imagine, but it’s all passion. Without it, innovation can’t continue. Innovation is required to make things better, but without passion innovation has no seed to grow from.
Thanks for explaining a bit, people were strangely mad at this comment. A property of strangers on the internet it would seem.