are admins smarter than everyone here

[The Unintelligible]

Er. Those aren't the best hackers. Or programmers. Or whatever you want to call them.

GAMEchief is strictly a web dev, and doesn't and never has done gaia programming for the most part.
Artificial. You've never seen work from him so how can you determine this? Artificial hasn't posted code in a while (like in months to years maybe). That said probably the best programmer here IMO.
Tree is decent but doesn't have the skill set or motivation/drive to become a gaia dev. He has offered to help the devs before. So has his friends (Doc or Lain I think). They were shot down. Declined.

Taking code apart/dissecting it/exploiting/etc is one thing. Building it is another. Gaia online isn't so simplistic. There are avatar based sites out there that have tried and failed to do what gaia has done over the years.

#2 just sounds kind of stupid.

[Awesomolocity]

Hence why I said "was joking with a friend". Obviously it would never happen.
The idea of having hackers as your developers is just kinda funny.