You can never overestimate the importance of the community in a crypto project.
Take a look at Bitcoin. The first crypto. If Satoshi had remained the only developer behind it, if others never voluntarily stepped in to help tweak the code. If the hundreds of volunteers who still today contribute, whether by code fixes, maintaining nodes, discussing the tech... in real life:
- crypto anarchists splashing the Bitcoin message with billboards across Slovakia:
https://bitcoinnews.com/national-bank-of-slovakia-illuminated-by-massive-bitcoin-sign/- Developers campaigning in Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, users finding ways to use crypto in countries trying to ban them like Venezuela and India.
All this for free, mind you. No bounties to reward them, no complaints that they're not getting paid for their efforts, which is a thousand times more difficult than submitting Twitter reports.
Without that community, Bitcoin wouldn't enjoy the success it currently does. And alts/tokens would never be where they are today.