Re: Sounds like a Mental Health Institution
As someone who was surprised to wake up one morning and find that I'd become an old git (at least in tech terms) I have to break it to you that that's the way the world works. I've put heart and brains into products for half a dozen companies over the last 20 years, and the lesson I've drawn is that it will all get wasted.
That's the nature of commercial software. Software companies aren't in business to make software, they are in business to make *money*.
That's one reason why open-source projects attract devs who value their work for its own sake rather than for how it can be 'monetized', because it won't fall victim to this kind of perverse decision.