The ICO craze has enabled a lot of these developers to just march out on their own and start coding, make a website, answer telegram questions etc etc, all the while thinking that they are doing something truly unique. They forget that at the end it is a business and they need a product. A product needs marketing, advertisement and all that shit. Yet, the problem with most of these so-called undervalued, good devs is that they all think they are on to something unique. It is impossible for everyone to be a Satoshi or a Bill Gates and make a business from scratch simply on the basis of the novelty and brilliance of their ideas. The echo chambers of their telegram/ Reddit groups makes it all the more easier to fall for this narrative.
They all could do much better only if they used some business sense and actually invested in marketing their product, meeting potential clients and just run an actual business.
Mate there are three types of developers in crypto space
1. The qualified ones that have aims of showing what they are made of, they Introduce no nonsense projects and they are ready to push the project to its success
2. The developers who aren't professionals but want to give a try, they can bring anyhow use cases, most times they introduce something that isn't needed in crypto space, this may probably drag them down
3. Developers that are scammers in disguise, they have no other intent but to scam investors, they can also bring attractive projects to make the fooling charm works perfectly on investors, some even find copy cating more easier, just copy the popular project idea and give a different name
If a developer can come up with is own idea he or she shouldn't bring up a blockchain project.