It doesn't gratify your curiosity but it does for others. They're curious about how this game is going to be, is it going to live up to their expectations, what do other people feel about it. If you need every conversation to revolve around software engineering, there's even a sub-thread about how they manage to keep this series so high quality.
Demanding that things should justify their existence to you is a symptom of main character syndrome.
Demanding that things should justify their existence to you is a symptom of main character syndrome.