And yet the Matrix team is doing it remarkably well. I've been a user of Matrix for going on a year now, and they continue to roll out updates and improvements

And yet the Matrix team is doing it remarkably well. I've been a user of Matrix for going on a year now, and they continue to roll out updates and improvements, over ALL of their platforms -- I use the android, iPad, and desktop/web apps every single day. They're also a federated service. Several of my friends run their own servers. Some days there's a little bar across the top of my page on the desktop client that says "refresh to update your experience!" and I do. My experience updates. Everything continues to work. Matrix has done such a good job making it easy to roll out updates that people... do. And I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be living in a federated world. You just can't compare this to e.g. Slack. I can get friends from all backgrounds on the same system because it's so open. The Matrix team is proof by example that federation and rapid forward motion is possible.