I've never seen someone so openly romantic about someone else's poverty, or so committed to using it in irrelevant ways to make a bad point badly.

There's a reason why accessible, working PHP/MySQL apps became wildly popular at the time they did, no matter how bad they were (and still are) architecturally. That time has passed and they're maturing with big-little economies around them. They may or may not remain scenes of technical innovation by the one-in-a-million whiz kids who can do anything. So what?

The subject at hand is whether these open source project-based industries can grow and sustain themselves. It is very hard to have a good market without good information so people know shit from shinola. Good information is expensive to create but hard to monetize, in part because the obvious sources of funding are interested in biasing/limiting/controlling the information.

This is a real and interesting problem worth taking seriously. If you just want to say there's no problem because geniuses will come out of nowhere and fix everything miraculously, and this is the best of all possible worlds, then you must be some kind of rare, optimistic, idealistic troll.