Perhaps they're unaware, or perhaps they just chose a case study they considered interesting as an article subject. "Look at the time and care devoted to this hobby" is a classic article pattern.
> perhaps they just chose a case study they considered interesting as an article subject
That is possible. But the article gives me no reason why this particular map would stand out as interesting apart from all the others. At the very least, if "look at the time and care devoted to this hobby" were the goal, you'd be able to make a much juicier article by considering other cases, more impressive projects, such as one-man megawads that took more than 300 hours to make.. full of maps that are on average larger and harder (and longer in the time required to play sens) and prettier than the original iwad maps.
