I read this as “your very specific hypothesis of team structure leading to abandonware is factually incorrect” implying it’s some other team building it and the

I read this as “your very specific hypothesis of team structure leading to abandonware is factually incorrect” implying it’s some other team building it and therefore we have no idea how much resource is invested in this. As a counterpoint, the DMA is requiring “Gatekeepers” like Google to enable interoperability for their messaging systems, so this protocol (or some other alternative implementation) is likely required to avert billions of dollars of fines.