>>I got a lot from many MVP's and I admired the depth of their knowledge but that world never interested me.
>>Why anyone would carp at them mystifies me.

I was a MVP once, not that it appears in any of the lists. It was in 1996, right when Sigler's damning of VFP with faint praise caused me to move the company to Java.

Feel free to admire and adulate. ;-) NOT.

My take over the years: It's easy to know an awful lot about very little. And the best practitioners with whom I'm most impressed, are the generalists who can offer best of breed rather than the same answer every time to solve customer need. I knew 3 of them who got involved in the Obamacare site cleanup, fwiw, after tunnel visioners caused a total screwup. Few generalists left AFAICS because everything is made so deliberately complicated and it's not easy to know a lot about everything, especially if vendors keep changing it.

FWIW, I think KG is a generalist who limits himself mostly to just one stack. I'm guessing there's plenty of coin and no obvious incentive to branch out, which has been one of MS's genius moves that made it rich.