My first thought too. I loved how Psych made a running joke of taking the piss out of that show

Someone somewhere does. It’s just how art works. Every show hits every person differently.

Or a sub visited by thousands of people just happen to have some that genuinely like different things.

The primary limiting factor to both population growth and technological development are actually the same; Our ability to deal with waste heat. For higher tiers of the Kardashev scale, heat is effectively the only hurdle. Megastructures in orbit around earth and the moon could comfortably house and support a population in the trillions as long as the radiant heat from both people and machines could be regulated.

Eh. Get those numbers within a certain ballpark and the difference becomes more philosophical than anything. It’s pretty much the core of cybernetics, as in the actual scientific field rather than the colloquial pop-culture definition of the term.