To be clear I believe this is far from a pessimistic view. I believe it's motivating, in sort of a burn the boats in a way, but to pretend it's not a massive risk in a time sink is a false belief.
The time I could have spent looking for contract work or applying for jobs, updating my website, whatever, is spent instead working on projects or libraries that are generally of no use to fiat companies, in fact any relation to crypto anything can often a turn off.