Dave,
here are some observations I and probably many others made:
1) hosts are slow at picking up extensions <for some reason>
2) hosts mostly use just slv2 <for some reason>
3) plugin authors are reluctant to write extensions <for some reason>
4) a number of plugin authors wrote their own hosts <for some reason>
Now people see different possible reasons for this, my version is:
1,2 -> I don't know. Bad documentation? Hard to use?
3 -> 1,2
4 -> 1,2
I think that's really all there is to this discussion, a bunch of
observations, different interpretations of why this is and thus
different suggestions to solve the problem.
So what is your variant?
Best regards,
Philipp