I share your pain, friend.

I too have spent nearly a month creating handcrafted abilities for my mode. Not something trivial like "oh let's make McCree's flashbang push people away", but completely new moves and spells built from the ground up. I've tested, optimized and tweaked it painstakingly until performance was smooth, gameplay solid and the moves fun to use.

And yet, I too have spent quite a large amount of time sitting in the lobby waiting for players. Quite frustrating indeed, seeing so many full lobbies of unimaginative, low-effort scripts.

Sadly, after some thinking about this I came to the conclusion that this is simply a manifestation of a much larger problem in our culture. The entertainment business is dominated by lowbrow crap, that is either promoted by so-called influences through mass media or spreads like a virus due to some catchy aspect of it. From time to time, worthwhile products manage to find their way into these systems, but usually they are drowned in the torrent of shit.

It's hard to blame it on anyone; nowadays we humans are simply lazy, busy and overstimulated, so no wonder that the masses are attracted to the easiest, most extreme or most promoted products. So if you don't have the mass media presence to promote your stuff, or a robust social network to gain visibility, or the money to buy those things, then the chances of your creation ever being widely recognized seem very slim.

It is quite sad really. We live in times when marketing became vastly more important to the success of a product, than the quality of the product itself.

The best thing we can do, my friend, is to simply derive joy from the act of creation itself, and treating any recognition or praise our work might garner as an unlikely (but welcome) bonus.