In my opinion i think this attitude is completely wrong. if you dont like a game dont play it, or dont buy it, nobody is forcing you to do either of these things. Why make a post to discourage would be designers and programmers?
And why adopt a snobbery of disdain toward Batari basic? to me this is just stupid.
everybody has to start somewhere or do you have to be a long term back in the good old days suffering programmer to be justified to write games for the Atari?
You like games, you wanna program games, keep doing it and keep trying.
If there were no games then people really would have something to moan about. This scene and this family is full of cool people and plenty of cool games, this attitude is not.