Long ago, boots were made by hand. They had this thing called a "last" that was the exact shape of the wearer's foot. Craftsmen painstakingly toiled to make an enclosure with an interior the exact shape of your foot.
Today, I can go to Walmart, and buy a pair of steel toed boots for $24:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Brahma-Men-s ... _cQAvD_BwE
Now, those boots won't fit like the $3000 custom made boots. They won't last like the custom made boots. They won't look as nice and they won't be as nice. But they will probably do the job, and eventually they will conform to my feet.
Meanwhile, the thirteen million people who cannot afford the $3000 boots can still get to work.
A lot of people who have spent a lot of hours toiling on evaluation are keenly disappointed. But the nets have not overtaken the search yet, so why not focus on the real area of possible revolution, search?
How did Fruit kick everybody's butt? An early form of LMR.
How did Rybka kick everybody's butt? A savage, simple search improvement (and a lot of testing)
All of the really huge revolutions (up till NNUE) have been search improvements.
So stop jealously guarding your evaluation functions, which are made of terms extracted from any decent chess book, and focus on the really interesting part of a chess engine.
Search.
IMO-YMMV
{dons plastic baggie, in expectation of the rotten tomatos}
Taking ideas is not a vice, it is a virtue. We have another word for this. It is called learning.
But sharing ideas is an even greater virtue. We have another word for this. It is called teaching.