I don't disagree with you, and partly I have always wanted to write a game or two (I've published many other non-game apps, also w/o much financial success), but I wanted to learn about the market... and I did!
Yeah, you beat me there too. The best game I ever made is barely half finished (no matter how much I work I do it seems to stay half finished.) Plus you got a really great article about download numbers out of it.
