I don't know too much but I can say that because of Inleo there are many new users in Hive. New users face difficulties in the hive platform and leave it but threads allow them a reason to stay here and explore slowly about the Hive platform.
In the case of development, I don't understand too much but I can say that it is getting better with time and and I can feel it just by using Inleo frontend.
When you asked the second person he stated the reason and I think it's ok but the first person who DM you seems suspicious. I think the person might have some conflict/hate/misunderstanding against the Inleo team.
And lastly, I think you should vote for any proposal based on your judgment rather than getting influenced by others.
I know little but I hope you can forgive me if I said something wrong or my word hurts you. I just tried to share my opinion with my little knowledge.