Disagree, it's an open protocol and extremely dev friendly... New devs are contributing all the time
Discussion
Survivorship bias.
New devs come. New devs go.
People who use it successfully are either:
1) Repo owners or their buddies.
2) Using the bare minimum on NIPs, with as few options as possible, to minimize the stress of dealing with the repo.
3) Developing something obscure that the repo owners haven't gotten around to working on, yet.
4) Being financed by OpenSats.
Source?
The development projects I'm working on.
Other devs I communicate with.
Not everyone working on Nostr projects posts notes in the Twitter clones. We have other channels.
But, it doesn't matter what I say. I'm not in their little clique.
We're just sticking to a couple of NIPs and doing our own thing.