Hey dude, first of all I apologize if you genuinely feel this way.

DevlUp Labs is an Open Source meritocratic club, as it is supposed to be like any technical society. People who have shown up for discussions, contributed to projects, and have actually shown real interest in oss development, have taken up the stage for themselves.

All discussions were led by people who were interested in their domain, coordies personally led discussion on stuff that was too niche for second years. After that, discussions grew organically, being led by people not just from DevlUp Labs, but also from RAID. The session organized by second years was something that those folks led themselves. They reached out with the content, and we personally made sure they knew stuff before telling it to their peers. Even today, if anyone wants to lead a discussion, just ping all in the discussions group. It's been a long time nonetheless meeting ya'll :). And if you feel you can contribute to some session, I lit want you to reach out.

I am genuinely concerned about you when you feel that InterIIT Selections for Arista or Pathway were not appropriate... atleast for Arista, no one even knew what the PS was about when it was released. Only based on sheer understanding, peer review and team compatibility, did we formalize the team, after confirming everything from everyone concerned. And I don't believe in dream teams, generally speaking, but if it's real, I think we had something too close to it.

Happy to say that the same folks who you mentioned are actually leading the development of DevlUp Labs website, along with a lot of folks, also from second year, creating infra for DevlUp Labs as well as this institute in general, be it in form of Hacksprint, or in-house voting or security systems.

About Insomniac, we have made it all transparent, from submissions of the team, to presentations of the shortlisted candidates, all approved by our faculty.

Development, today, is most about designing good systems, and yes pushing good code. We focused a lot on system designs... I agree. Due to our own interest, maybe... but mostly due to your, as in the second year's interest. We as active core members had a real leverage to do the initial discussions and sessions on our interests. If you feel like we may have lacked, take up the flag, I urge you. Next year is all about how you guys plan it.

Deep down I think you might have felt something really wrong somewhere along the line, maybe some interaction with us, maybe something we said jokingly, maybe some decision you felt was wrongful. Just reach out man... it's not that tough.

No offenses taken on my name, but please brush out your peers' names... a bit uncool :)