i would say "hubris" rather than "narcissism." My goal was not to change v8 - my goal was to explain to the cvv8/v8-juice users why i cannot afford to expend more energy supporting v8 by making their APIs more accessible (which is, in effect, what cvv8 is for). That goal, it seems, has succeeded far more than i dared hope, as is evidenced by this thread. Regarding the bridge burning: i did that on purpose. At certain points i find that i must shut down all paths which might lead me back to something which i know in my heart i don't want to go back to. It keeps me from "being weak" and trying to crawl back in the future.