> Outside of a few vocal people trying to enforce the status hierarchy, most people don’t care who releases their jailbreak or PS5 exploit. They just want it. Whoever gets it to them first becomes the new king.

"Commodification" might be a relevant word here.

You can fight that by "building a personal brand", but then you're suddenly brand building instead of hacking, and hacking was what you actually wanted to do.

I guess it works best if you're not in it for clout but because you want something to exist. But even then it is difficult.

> There were also 3 people who found the same exploit independent and some large amount of money on the line for the first of them to report it.

Ah yes, game theory. Oof.