Of course I had to spend time on a couple of the games in that screenshot. Mostly in ways to get them to work with modding tools like dgVoodoo2.
Yes, that's precisely the point. It's a two way street. As a security professional you have the deductive reasoning and technical skills to be able to do what needs to be done. I just don't believe you'd have that much trouble if you were, as you said, committed to this. Rather than just using it as an excuse to parrot trite arguments