Which is why when people kept stealing his license plates, he just stopped using them. Still paid registration, but that law was “beneath” him.
Moreover, it really would not surprise me at all if Carmack ultimately made a lot of unofficial contributions to the design and simply hasn’t said anything because that’s not really his way. The guy does what he does for the love of doing it, which gets my respect even if he’s shifted politically in ways that disappoint me. (It’s hard when one of the idols from your youth shifts like that, but everyone is wrong about something.)
