[remirk]

I was replying to

> The current stewards of the protocol don’t seem to be giving it that, growing features (even if good and competently designed ones) while treating the surroundings with something of a “they will come” approach.

I don't agree the growing features is an issue.

[mananaysiempre]

We are in agreement as to which part you were replying to, then :)

> I don't agree the growing features is an issue.

And I’m not arguing that it’s an issue in itself, either. I’m arguing that it is an issue when allocated development effort in preference to growing an ecosystem, because Matrix is both (inherently) bound to have an difficult time at it and (factually) not in a good place right now from that point of view. And that is my perception of the protocol developers’ priorities.

(Once there are a half-dozen independent server implementations and a decent number of clients, all with reasonably complete coverage of the current spec, this argument becomes irrelevant, so I’m not pleading featuritis here.)