Why do folks look to extremes that are out of feasible range of an individual or small team,when they aren't necessary?

In the first instance, I mention modding...to achieve some of the desired perks that we enjoyed with the n900.
Such as a physical keyboard mod to an existing device that doesn't have one. There are plenty of examples of mods exactly like that ...in detail...in our forum here. And any one individual can accomplish it.
Since much of the work that was done for the neo was on a souped-up beagleboard, undoubtedly resistive screens can also be used ..albeit that would take a higher degree of learning and understanding to implement.
Such simpler mods as those are what I meant.
Not serious work as szilveszter.domotor mentioned...that is in essence bordering on a complete rebuild with the needed skills of virtually the entire n900 nokia team.

Likewise it is such extremism as wiki's "all or nothing" approach ..
and supposing that I am endorsing that "people are recommended to go with the flow and use large rectangular phablets with capacitive touchscreens and pre-installed Android just because a start-up failed"
And that yet again ...
the approach is to hope or pin hopes or more monies on yet another neo attempt
Both extreme views of achieving a simple goal.

In the end the only rational and sane thing that has been said thus far is what I have repeatedly endorsed for a very very very long time.
Years in fact.

that we needed a shackle-free maemo operating system that can be thrown onto virtually any device.
eventually someone ...some corp. ...(even some start up ) will start producing a device that comes close or better than the n900 was.
In the mean time we can utilize a shackle-free maemo on available devices until then, thus keeping maemo software, ideals and community alive until then.
Even better I suggested that to evolve past the limits and extinction threshold of a mobile os ...that we should aim as well for a shackle-free 86_64 maemo pc os ..then we can wait out the long years comfortably with little turmoil to the os and needed iteration changes as what goes through the generations of mobile os in the same span of time.

It is called bigger picture thinking.
Survivalist thinking.

Thankfully the maemo Leste team did get what I was trying to say about the whole issue...whether they heard me or not ...is not relevant...
they saw the exact same writing on the wall as I did years ago..
.and we have better than a life raft now.
We have a higher survival percentile chance than without Leste.

Now all that is needed is enough people to help pull in the 3rd party catalogs full of software that may disappear ...as I have also warned ..

For myself I am getting weary of Talk Startup dot Org ...
and I am likewise weary of folks trying to find the hardest and most likely to fail methods of doing things first ...
Before sitting down and thinking about it.