John Carmack

What does /prog/ think about John Carmack and graphics programming in general?

John Carmack is pretty cool and a good graphics programmer. Graphics programming is also cool. However id software did baaaad things to the world of gaming when it started pushing lame games driven by graphics alone. One could see this trend already in Wolfenstein and Quake, and especially in Doom. Then it was downhill from there. If only Carmack had been lead graphics programmer for Looking Glass or something, instead of having his own company.