John Carmack

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

The first person shooter genre was done incredibly well in Doom and pretty much perfected by Quake 3. id sort of lost any ability at gameplay innovation at that point.

I feel like Doom 3 and all subsequent games were just demos for the game engines. They should have put about 1/10th the development time into them and made them just free tech demos, instead putting that other 9/10th of their time into tools so they could keep up with Unreal. Then they could have actually made some money on licensing, and we'd have some better games.