I think my concern is that the main Zygote dev is not very responsive or communicative. That's fine, he doesn't owe the rest of the community anything, but it a

I think my concern is that the main Zygote dev is not very responsive or communicative. That's fine, he doesn't owe the rest of the community anything, but it also seems irresponsible to put all our eggs in his basket (note I'm by no means knowledgeable about this and I'm open to the idea that it's a mis-characterization. This is merely my impression as a relative outsider looking in). Besides, any implementation of AD is going to have downsides. Having many different, hot swappable implementations is quite nice because you can tailor towards your needs.