Our eternally insatiable urge to learn how things around us work and create new things from that knowledge is what makes us human.
This is a bit of an extreme case, yes, but it's still fundamentally the same thing: someone dedicating their time to understanding something and sharing that knowledge with others, even if it's not particularly useful knowledge.
Pannen's insane dedication to SM64 and the quality of his content have earned him a sort of small cult following over the years of people who watch almost every video he uploads, including me. With that in mind, it's hard for me to say the time was wasted on his part.
This is a bit of an extreme case, yes, but it's still fundamentally the same thing: someone dedicating their time to understanding something and sharing that knowledge with others, even if it's not particularly useful knowledge.
Pannen's insane dedication to SM64 and the quality of his content have earned him a sort of small cult following over the years of people who watch almost every video he uploads, including me. With that in mind, it's hard for me to say the time was wasted on his part.