Why do ROM developers keep creating new series of ROM's?

yourrealking

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If you see the Development board, you can see the same developer creating "XXX ROM", and releases a couple of updates for it for a while, and then abandons it, and then creates "YYY ROM", and releases a couple of updates for it for a while, and then abandons it, too, and then creates "ZZZ ROM", and so on. Of course, those ROM's are incompatible so you cannot just update from "XXX ROM" to "YYY ROM".

I know that creating a ROM and maintaining it for free is a time consuming, laborious task, and I can completely understand it if developers abandon a ROM and no longer create updates. But why create a new YYY ROM, instead of updating an existing XXX ROM from 1.1 to 1.2? Isn't that a more difficult & time-consuming work to create a new YYY ROM than updating XXX ROM 1.1 to 1.2?
 
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xxJMarian

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Diversity. Each ROM offers a different set of extrafeatures. Another question could be, why don't rom developers join into a master project for creating a unique rom with all the pros and none of the flaws