Is that a negative? All of the "negative" things listed make me think that they are really cool and trying to learn stuff and challenge things.

It's not a negative, at all.

I just shared it because it's sort of like learning Slack started life as the internal communication tooling for the online game glitch, or that a lot of the "weird Twitter" folks started life as FYAD posters - once you know that, you can draw the lines between the two points.