The average lifespan of an engineer at a tech company is somewhere between 2-5 years, depending upon the industry and skillset. IOG still has Aggelos, Duncan, Phil Wadler, Neil, and many others from the very beginning. We also have a lot of fresh blood and new perspectives.
It's extraordinary to me that we live in this Schrodinger's cat of criticism where the decisions of the old guys like CBOR, lack of smart contract composability, etc are heavily criticized, but then there is a longing for the old guys?
The industry and technology are rapidly evolving. In 2017, when Cardano launched, we were the first UTXO proof-of-stake blockchain that aspired to have smart contracts and on-chain governance. Now we have Nervos, Bitcoin itself through their layer 2s, dozens of Ethereum projects like Aztec, and the ZK revolution. Not to mention all the progress on metachains concepts like Layer-0 and re-restaking.
IOG is somehow incompetent because of the evil Charles Hoskinson driving all the innovation out, but then we just published Leios, the Peras specs, Plutus V3, are building Midnight, the partnerchains framework, and finished CIP-1694, not to mention the epic speed of the innovation group under where former IOGers like vincent, alan, and others came back to IOG to work for us again after leaving.
Narratives don't require reality. Stick to facts. There are hundreds of exceptional scientists and engineers at IOG. We are growing the pie, not losing it. We also heavily collaborate with the community engineers as Hydra Doom, Midgard with , Gummiworm with , and demonstrate. This will be scaled up by a factor of 5-10 thanks to and others hard work.