Without a doubt .. there are heavy players on the scene. It's sort of a shame that retail never really got going. Even if retail bought and just stored on Swan/River/Strike ... we would have been in better shape.

What is irksome, now, is the nonchalance of several podcasters and personalities that I follow. It can only be explained by their being "on the take." They're technically way more advanced than I am .. and yet ... not even motivated to address the issue with seriously .

I would have expected a 3rd version of Node software by now .... promulgated by people who oppose Core but are no fans of Luke either. Maybe these are all the peeps running Core version <30 .. who actually constitute the overwhelming majority at this point in time.