And if I may add: the feeling that "nobody cares" is a permeating one. Not many people give feedback about what they care about (me included).
In my case, I definitely have the feeling that nobody cares about anything I ever did in Squeak during about 15 years now,
I do! :)
which to day includes: a modular Lisp/Scheme implementation, an extension for functional programming, the upgrading of the Prolog implementation, a vast system for musical composition, and a Space Invader reboot.
No, your stuff helped us tremendously when we reported our progress to the SFC back around that time of the dismal 4.5 Release. But I do not always say so. Nor do you (as you admitted, "me included").
So maybe the shortage is of compliements than caring..? Or a shortage of positive thinking?
It's fortunate I did not do this for glory and fame :)
That's when people make their best stuff..
Even more, I still mostly feel like a complete outsider (probably because I build things on top of Squeak instead of working on the core, and possibly also because I work alone and have no position in industry or academia).
I'm so convinced nobody cares about what I do that stopped long ago sending fixes to bug I encounters: I just fix them in my code. For example, the Saucers game I did has a much faster way of handling morphs, down to modified #addMorph: logic. This could be leveraged, if someone looked at the code. But you cannot command interest.
Well, that's how it is. I have the same experience with Csound people, so I'm pretty sure there is nothing specific to Squeak in these matters. The web is a cold place.