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It maybe should be made more clear that, while I was actively killing myself--stealing time and racking up stress--to build a stable iOS 11 jailbreak for two or three months at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, I finally quit entirely in early 2018 due to developer toxicity.
It was in this moment that I realized "there is no benefit to any of this--only pain--and it requires me to constantly have to interact with people who are frankly _horrible_"; I was particularly proud of myself for blowing off all of the toxic jailbreak people at DEFCON 2018 :|.
So, for the rest of 2018--when some users seem to think they were "waiting on me"?--_I'd moved on with my life_. I didn't work on jailbreaking or Substrate _at all_ for over half a year, and I didn't look at Twitter/reddit. The "old guard" developers were happy I finally escaped.
Yet, in October of 2018, when I was contacted by Sam Bingner--someone I find reasonable--saying Substitute was never stable and suggesting he could offload a lot of the pain I didn't want to deal with (including "dealing with other people") so I could release Substrate, I agreed.
Honestly, I am not sure Substrate for iOS 11 was a "healthy" achievement; I still enjoy working on Impactor (and have some major updates that I want to release), but it just doesn't seem possible anymore to have fun on Substrate :(. That said, I _am_ quite proud of its stability.
