Yes, that's a lot of core developer resources that get funnelled into solving the same problems over and over again, instead of making small, gradual improvemen

Yes, that's a lot of core developer resources that get funnelled into solving the same problems over and over again, instead of making small, gradual improvements to the existing language and tooling. (Also, it sure is a lot of fun.) And why did all those forks come into existence? Elm stagnated because the BDFL didn't feel like it.