This doesn't take off.
Surely due to the fact the developers keep themselves anonymous.
Not introducing yourselves to the community is rather old fashion and create a big shade on your true intentions.
Well, my true intention is to build a great tool (one that is a never before seen technical innovation). One that I can actually use: as you probably know, I work as a researcher and regularily have to solve complex optimization problems (genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, monte carlo sampling and many more). I have access to a cluster but it has only a few hundred nodes and it requires using certain libraries which render the development a pain in the ass. So I need an easy and efficient way get (at least parts of) these tasks done. What if I can hack my code into LUA and have it solved by 20000 nodes? That would be great.
Not sure why this project does not get that much attention. Probably because it has not hired a whole bunch of promoters, signature campaign users, hypers, sockpuppets and other interesting people who dedicate their time to hype a coin "to the moon".
When I take a look at some recent and ongoing projects, I see some shiny websites with smiling faces of "dev team" members scattered all over it. They, of course, come along with a CV stating how good they are, how many bachelor thesises they have written, what programming languages they know and what websites they have created so far.
Good, if that is what you are looking for, go ahead.
I think that, if most of these people that get involved in those projects, knew what kind of brilliant people are involved in Elastic, they would change their minds quickly
I think that nobody here needs to show off with his bachelor's thesis because a master's thesis and a phd thesis have already followed, in some cases long time ago, already.
Then why is nobody writing that down? Because it does not matter. I think we all are glad that we are not confronted with any hypers, pump and dumpers and people who love glossy images on nice (promotional) websites. We want to create great software that solves complex algorithmic problems, and (at least me) even do not want to get paid a single cent for it. If that happens without much attention, then that's just how it is.
To sum up: I think everyone here is wishing those, who have thousands of BTC that they throw at "publicly known" dev teams with the third interpretation of the same idea
A LOT success over at these projects. May the force be with you.