There are tons of people playing with ecomodding and everyone has their own reasons. For a lot of us it's just something to tinker with, because we're not satisfied by tv. It's something to chat about with other people, innovations that work end up feeling rewarding, even if they don't otherwise mean much in the grand scheme of things.
And as a broader benefit, every once in a while someone stumbles on a new & functional innovation that spreads around and potentially creeps into the market, potentially creeps into new vehicles in some form - every feature of a modern car came from this sort of tomfoolery, whether on the clock or in someone's garage decades before it made its way into production.
So your initial post makes some valid points, but they don't invalidate the stuff we do here
