I don't believe you did. I wasn't referring to ROI for others but personal ROI for me. I'm never sure who these "we could" suggestions are aimed at. As far as I know, I'm the only member of the community with the requisite skillset and without any kind of disambiguating "this is how we'd do it" context, they come across as implying that I should undertake the work and if that's the case, I'm the one you need to convince that the time and effort would be worthwhile.

Creating new coins isn't all that demanding, technically speaking. For several years now, I've kept Minkiz' Foundry up to date with the latest Bitcoin version (now working on the 0.20 template).




Minkiz' Foundry started off as a non-functional ironic comment on all the algo-variant altcoins released a few years ago which were basically the same Bitcoin codebase except they used a different PoW algo. As this was a relatively trivial change to the codebase which could be easily automated via a template-based solution, it amused me to make the tongue-in-cheek offering secretly real. (You'll notice that the Dcrypt algo is one of the offerings.)

I used a Foundry 0.16.3 template as the base for an upgrade of Gapcoin from 0.9 to 0.16.3 (https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin-core) and similarly for Datacoin, upgrading Crossverse's 0.15.99 upgrade of the 0.8.6 client to something more maintainable (https://github.com/gjhiggins/datacoin). Unfortunately, neither community is what you might call enthused.

It's easy to launch coins but these days it's far more difficult to attract the interest and engagement of a new community (one recent example here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5293602.0)

Cheers

Graham