Builders are motivated to build for some particular target audience. Both of the dev teams I'm on have a concrete set of real people eager to use what we produce, and more approaching us on the regular.

It's the people able to formulate and maintain a product vision that are missing. They're much rarer than builders. Lots of builders here just sort of flounder around and then wander off because there's no larger product vision that they can contribute to.

And project teams. We need more teams. Teamwork keeps builders focused and makes the act of building itself more fun because each team member can focus on what the do best, goof off together a bit, have conferences and meetups, and join forces to build something grand and sustainable.