@dasrecht@chaos.social I think that's the easy answer out, to be honest - in a very literal sense, sure, extra steps make it less likely that someone engages with something. But even if somehow it is the sole *cause* (and it likely isn't), that doesn't mean that it's also the way towards solving it!

Once, Google was obscure too. Once, nobody understood how to use Facebook. Everything that is popular today was once new to people, and required often multiple unfamiliar processes to engage with - and yet people did.

So why aren't they doing so with OSM? What can *we*, as "the open-source community" (insofar one exists), do to make it more accessible and easier or more interesting to get involved in? I think that's a more productive angle to consider than "what is 'wrong' with those people" (to paraphrase it ungenerously).