Attention of people currently inside the community doing outreach and outside the community is finite. In analysis of their outreach efforts, I'd hope that they

Attention of people currently inside the community doing outreach and outside the community is finite. In analysis of their outreach efforts, I'd hope that they would know what the trade-offs are. I don't. Hence the question. For me, both the assertion that no opportunity costs exist and the assertion that the/a top problem faced by an upstart systems language is the lack of representation in their community of people with attributes orthogonal to language development strain credulity.