Additionally I have had a small project on the benefits of hackathons: thinking about it, asking myself "will this work for them and advance their goals" and concluding it genuinely could. this shows the limits of psychology absent context as well. I mean, you can have a vibrant learning culture for a team that's causing utter destruction to everybody else! It will probably work for their outcomes! Things working isn't morality. They are working well at what they're trying to do imo.