[rrdharan]

I agree it does seem like there's a silent majority that is underrepresented sort of by definition :).

I also share your sentiment in that I am kind of tired of reading evangelism from Developer Advocates/DevRel. There's inherently no skin in the game - they don't suffer if the snake oil they are promoting collapses in a mess of security violations, compliance concerns or productivity implosions two years later.

Fundamentally it seems like you can't know if something really works unless you really try to build something with it and that takes 18+ months during which time you can't be out there shilling at conferences all day.