The writing was on the wall for Carmack when he announced that everyone bunnyhopping and strafejumping in Quake 3 was playing it wrong and that he'd remove it if he could, and in the face of basically everyone who actually played the game telling him to "shut up nerd" he just stopped posting work updates https://www.gamers.org/pub/archives/plans/johnc@idsoftware.com/1999-04-24_1999-06-05