I know it can be difficult sometimes. But i don't think it's anywhere close to impossible.

Bmh, I work in a large group of people trying to accomplish one goal over the winter. Just about every year half of the team disagrees on the way it's going and the other half thinks the first half's idea awful. Yes, it is nearly impossible if not outright impossible

That kind of unification of competition within a niche is exactly the type of thing that i was supporting in my original message.

That's not at all what I was referring to. Many modpacks combine many trivially related mods. It's not as fun to play with 10 mods that all overhaul, say, caves, than 10 mods that each do different things.

I don't like the mentality that video games are somehow special pieces of software.

I'd argue that they are, like you said, they're meant to entertain, not be useful. If doing things differently than other softwares makes them be more entertaining, then so be it.