Why should people be in either crowd? The internet needs dedicated professionals too. Someone has to test vacuum cleaners, do investigative journalism, report about quickly changing events. This requires more time than the merely passionate can provide.

And why would the truly passionate keep writing if their words never make it to others without being rephrased and they never get attribution for their ideas?

> This requires more time than the merely passionate can provide.

Perhaps but weaponized autism will get it done.