On one hand that’s true. On the other, the “one guy” there is, like, the guy who does impressive projects “just as a hobby.”

Yeah, it's really burying the lede to call Linus Torvalds "one guy with a chip on his shoulder".

"Why fund $17M towards development of an operating system, when Linux was made by one guy with a chip on his shoulder?"

While he's technically excellent (or so it seems on the outside) he's still just, like, a guy

Zaphod iz just zis guy, you know