I read the "how on earth did it come to this?" question differently than Garret did, more about the rest of the field than about DJB. How did it come to a point

I read the "how on earth did it come to this?" question differently than Garret did, more about the rest of the field than about DJB. How did it come to a point where it seems literally only DJB is producing high-quality crypto systems that people want to move to, and nobody else is? tptacek's answer to that question is pretty reasonable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11357587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11357587