You have an ecosystem where most software is made for free by enthusiasts, and orders of magnitude less people may be paid a bit for some of the core parts. Ho

You have an ecosystem where most software is made for free by enthusiasts, and orders of magnitude less people may be paid a bit for some of the core parts. How do you expect the much bigger former group would work on your new thing? They wont, unless it starts spreading. And it can’t really spread unless it is being supported by all the community. That decade was mostly a build up — once it has the critical mass, improvements will be exponentially greater. Anyone saying that it is a drop because it already took a decade is just not familiar with how any of open source/bazaar projects work.