There always has to be a core group of knowledgeable people either developing or maintaining submissions to them. It's just the nature of the game for highest q

There always has to be a core group of knowledgeable people either developing or maintaining submissions to them. It's just the nature of the game for highest quality/reliability/security. So far, this has produced almost entirely proprietary or academic solutions with the FOSS ones not receiving nearly the contributions they need. You can't just scratch an itch and improve something that's nearly NSA-proof most of the time.