that feedback is always from the targeted few on purpose. it's why steem/steemit will never grow outside of it's middle class closed loop insecurities, all i see is introverts focusing on the power of control of those communities and a complete lack of vision for the general public usage of communities.
i hear you about api usage, that i can respect however
I'd rather spend my time and energy empowering other blockchain projects outside of steem that listen to the whole of the community instead of distilling down what they want to hear and just passing it through a few people and watering it down for the cult like adoption.
I can't wait to see what you bring out for communities. i'll mostly certainly be using it solely on steempeak and i have high hopes that we can make some incredible frontends in 2020 based around python. I've already been pulling my thoughts together on it.
I watched your stream from steemfest4, you get it, you were right to make your own frontend for steem because you understand the outside 'volume' that will make it grow for your idea of the way you see steem working while yet still supporting the parts that make sense.
i respect that a lot.
The purpose of communities is to grow far beyond what we have today. The purpose of a closed beta is scalable testing.