@pospi @dat_ecosystem @apereo To add to the pile, I bailed out of that whole ecosystem a while ago, after Holepunch practically took over the DAT protocol (then Hypercore) while several unpleasantly sealion-y community members very insistently wanted to argue about how that's all a misconception and actually the DAT protocol is still independent and Holepunch is separate from that, but could mysteriously not answer questions like "okay so why did all the non-Holepunch documentation just disappear" at the time...
And everything I've encountered along the way pretty much matched up with your description of the dynamics there.