[PurpleRamen]

> I ran a poll recently in a PKM community of 17,000 members asking who has written a book—or created some other knowledge product like a course—using their tool (Obsidian, Zettelkasten, LogSeq, etc.).

That's a very limited choice of options. Or poor phrasing.

> I received two responses of people who actually produced something.

So the others ignored it?

> The vast majority, it seems, are professional note-taking junkies.

I'm not sure if this is poorly phrased or an insult. And what does professional mean? Most of what I manage with Obsidian are private data, nothing work-related.

> People in the Obsidian forum spend their lives fooling around with metadata conventions and "tagging" and "wikilinks"

That's the point of a forum. Talking. Fooling around. How many will you see there talking about the boring stuff? How they use Obsidian for managing contacts, their mealplans, the other boring notes. Probably not many. You will also see the small number of shining characters and fancy solutions, but not much about casual thing people also do.